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Sermon

2 weeks ago • Aug 31, 2024

When You Get a Second Chance — Take It

By
Rabbi Hannah Jensen

At this time of year in our Jewish calendar, we are in a season of second chances. We are reading Moshe’s retelling of the people’s journey through the desert in Deuteronomy, and we are about to enter into the month of Elul, the month of spiritual preparation for the High Holy Days. It is also the moment when Moshe went back up the mountain to get the second set of tablets – the ultimate story of second chances. We are about to start our own month of reflection and repair – let’s see what we can do.