Kol Nidrei Sermon 5784

How much control did we have over the world when we were children? Very little. The whole process of growing up, learning and so called socialization is about gaining control over our own behavior and the close environment that surrounds us. Over time we gain more and more control over ourselves and our close environment; this makes us able to create small worlds of our own, like our own family, our own business or any kind of structure, like an organization or a religious community. In this way we change the world and participate in the process of its creation.[…]