Sermon
3 years ago • Dec 12, 2020

To Soften the Darkness

By
Rabbi Sharon Brous

Shabbat Vayeshev 5781 Sermon.

Our Jewish tradition calls us to be extremists in one way and one way only: in the fight to mitigate the darkness and bring more light into the world. A look at Hanukkah in dark times, America’s fatal attraction to the death penalty, and our stubborn insistence that we can and must do better.