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Sermon
3 years ago • Aug 30, 2021

High Holiday Sermons: 2020/5781

By
Rabbi Sharon Brous

Ruminate, appreciate, get irate, activate: our rabbis guide us through the spiritual journey of the Holiest of Days. Sermon. The Path to Redemption – A Conversation with Bryan Stevenson, with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Sometimes Love IS a Call to Action – Rabbi Sharon Brous

On Being Alone – Rabbi David Kasher

A World is Dying, A World is Being Born – Rabbi Sharon Brous

The Splash Zone – Rabbi Keilah Lebell

May Her Memory Be a Blessing – Brief Remarks by Rabbi Sharon Brous on the Loss of tzadeket Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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