Archive of Past High Holyday Sermons

2022/5783

Erev Rosh Hashanah – September 25, 2022

This is Our Esther Moment by Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Rosh Hashanah – September 26, 2022

And G-d Remembered Sarah by Annie Atura Bushnell

Erev Yom Kippur – October 4, 2022

The Coffin Confessor by Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Yom Kippur Yizkor Drash – October 5, 2022

From Loss to Sacred Memory by Martin Tannenbaum

 

 

 

2021/5782

Rosh Hashanah – September 7, 2021

A Tree in a Field by Rabbi Mychal Copeland

 

Yom Kippur – September 16, 2021

Tapping Toward Healing by Rabbi Mychal Copeland

 

Drashs from Maggid Elias Ramer, Shawn Matloob, Ericka Katske, Shoshana Levenberg

 


2018/5779

Yom Kippur – September 19, 2018

Mindful by Rabbi Copeland

Erev Rosh Hashanah – Sunday, September 09, 2018

Finding Peace Amidst the Chaos Tohu and Vohu by Rabbi Copeland

 


2017/5778

Erev Rosh Hashanah – Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Wake Up and Show Up by Rabbi Copeland

Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre – Friday, September 29, 2017

Our Two Names Yehudim and Yisrael, Gratitude and Struggle by Rabbi Mychal Copeland

 


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Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast

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