The Rabbi Michael Signer Clergy Cabinet program subvented the travel and hospitality expenses for Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin’s volunteer visit to Poland during the Days of Awe. Please take a few minutes to read his Yizkor Yom Kippur sermon, Remembering the late Alex Dancyg, a hostage from Warsaw.
Days of Awe 2024
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Being Mindful in the Transient World
Reflection on Sukkot 5785
You’re probably familiar with the expression “a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” That was told to young women of bygone generations to encourage them to learn how to cook well so that they could “catch” a man. Well, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches, the same is true of coming close to God – The way to your neshamah (soul) is through your stomach as well, through the feeling you feel in both, your soul and your stomach.
On Genuine Teshuvah
Erev Yom Kippur 5785 Sermon
First, let me start with a little introduction. We live in times of war, terrible war. Our brothers and sisters in our homeland, Israel, experience it and are scared everyday. I will think of them and pray for them today, which I encourage or don’t actually need to encourage you. But the topic of this drasha won’t be related to the situation in Israel. Yom Kippur is a holiday of introspection. We look inside us, to do the final analysis of our transgressions, our wrongdoings, our moral condition and generally the time of self-assessment. It’s not about what’s going on in the world, it’s about what’s going on inside us. For this exact reason we fast – we don’t eat, we don’t drink, we don’t have marital relations, we don’t even wash (except for health and some rabbinic authorities allow – for hygienic reasons). It is all meant to strengthen our spiritual, internal self against our physical self, to weaken the physical self, which is often stronger than the spiritual one[…]
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