Sukkot

Ha’azinu 5786 / 10.4.2025 As we move from the peak experiences of the High Holy Days into Sukkot, how will we gather in our joy? What practices can we adopt for Sukkot, whether or not we are able to build a Sukkah? And what role does this joy have to play in our experience of Sukkot and beyond?

We will be joined by Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Elda Mendez-Lemus, Sam Prater, and Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky who will discuss the housing crisis, the demands that faith traditions call on us to act–and how. This will be an interactive event–a learning and action lab. Come expecting to participate. Light refreshments will be served.

Sukkos VI (CH”M) Sermon. We think of the Bible as a fixed book, but an ancient debate amongst the Rabbis reveal how close Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) came to being left out of the canon. What’s so dangerous about this book of the Bible, and why is crucially important that it found its way in?

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.

Sukkot I 5782 Sermon. What if Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot were dramatic re-enactments of Adam and Eve’s journey from the security of the Garden to the uncertainty of life outside of Eden?  Sukkot symbolizes the fateful moment of exiting the garden… but with a twist.  Leaving Eden isn’t a punishment; it’s what makes life beautiful.

Shabbat Sukkot VI Sermon. Rabbi Brad Artson Life tries to make us small, boxed inside our fears, resentments and longings. Judaism asks us to dream big, to see beyond the constraints, to live expansively and with courage.