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Bound and Unbound
Who is Isaac? The man perpetually trapped by his father’s story, still bound to the altar, forever defined by the core trauma of his life. What will it take to break free? For the once bound to become unbound?
Let Us Be the Light Force
After a life of heartache, two estranged brothers affirmed each other’s humanity,
and rediscovered their own. We, too, can make that choice. Let us push back on the encroaching darkness as a force for good—a light force—that counters the cruelty, racism, and violence poisoning our culture with compassion, tender presence, and forgiveness. This is what solidarity looks like.
Love the Stranger
Loving your neighbor, who is like you, whose identity you share, is not enough. You must stretch the boundaries of love to wrap into its embrace the stranger, the people in our society who are furthest away from power. To counter the frenzy of rhetoric and the aspirations of policy that demonize these human beings, we need to love them fiercely. We need to love them fully.
Dreams Don’t Die
One day our dreams will be realized. Just not today. And not tomorrow.
And maybe not for many years. But just as hope doesn’t die, dreams don’t die.
If you’re stressed, anxious, or depressed, this is your counterintuitive medicine
How optimizing this skill can change your life – and the world.
Rabbi Sharon Brous has some extremely practical tips for how to improve what psychologists call your social health. She is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR , a Jewish community in LA. Her new book, a bestseller, is called The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Gifts of the Flood
There’s an eerie resonance between the Noah narrative and this week. What does Noah’s Flood teach us about navigating chaos and coming once more to land?
From Blame and Shame to Cherished Belonging
After the death of a beloved child in our community to suicide, we reaffirm our commitment to combatting shame with tenderhearted love, to meeting one another in the dark, to never giving up on each other. May Benjamin Ellis’s memory be a blessing.
Home and Hevel
Sukkot reflects our people’s ancient narrative, balancing the transience of a wandering nation and the fragility of life with our yearning for home and the Eternal Divine. How does our tradition compel us to relate to those who yearn for home, but who are left to wander?
To Save Our Democracy, We Must Tell a Better Story – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Yom Kippur 5785
There is a dominant story in America today—a story of isolation, alienation, and narrow-minded extremism, fueled by a deeply unsettling convergence of right- and left-wing antisemitism.
This story—propagated by a would-be authoritarian—plays on our worst instincts: the smallness, the fear, the ever-present sense of scarcity. And it threatens to do untold damage.
We must write something new.
Have Faith in Grief – Rabbi Morris Panitz | Kol Nidre 5785
The only way forward is one broken heart next to another, crying together, awakening to the reality that grief is our common bond.
On Joy – Alex Edelman & Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah II 5785
The Torah of Joy, and the Power, Promise, and Necessity of Laughter in Dark Times. | Rosh Hashanah II 5785
A Hope Born From the Depths of Sorrow – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah I 5785
Hope doesn’t die, and despair is a privilege we cannot afford. | Rosh Hashanah I 5785
There’s Something about Going Back – Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785
What can returning to a place surface for us? And what does our tradition show us can come from that journey? | Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Sharon Brous
Rabbi Sharon Brous, Senior Rabbi of Ikar in Los Angeles, joins Rabbi Yoshi for a conversation focusing on her new book, "The Amen Effect." In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, Rabbi Brous suggest ways that we can mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society.
Rabbi Brous also shares about the ways that she has tried to navigate these challenging months since October 7 all the while mourning her father who died a few weeks before Rosh Hashanah in 2023.
Lunch & Learn: Peace Activists Arab Aramin & Yonatan Zeigen
The two are members of the Parents Circle – Families Forum, a grassroots organization of Palestinian and Israeli families who have lost immediate family members in the conflict, and who believe that only together can they achieve a sustained peace. Rabbi Brous will join them in dialogue after Shabbat services. Please join us.