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Sermon

3 years ago • Sep 25, 2021

A Time to Dance: Simchat Torah, The Last Happy Memory!

By
Rabbi Brad Artson

Sukkot V 5782 Sermon. As health conditions permit, the deep human need to connect and to celebrate must also re-emerge. Simchat Torah offers the opportunity to claim our freedom through dance: on Zoom, in pods, or socially-distanced. But the time has come to rise up and dance our light and our power.