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You can use Sefaria to post your sermons, Divrei Torah, and Derashot for those in your community and the broader Jewish world to read, watch, and listen to! This is especially important in 2020 when most congregations are unable to meet in person.
We've curated this collection of excellent 2020/5781 High Holiday sermons from rabbis across North America.
Feel free to read through the content, watch the video recordings, and explore how you can use Sefaria's tools to share the Divrei Torah you would like to offer the world.
Interested in having your High Holiday sermons featured in this collection? Check out this sheet to learn how: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/268239
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How Do I Create My Sermon / Dvar Torah On Sefaria?A how-to on writing sermons/divrei Torah on Sefaria.
A Masked Rosh Hashanah, A Masked Shofar: Discovering Our Greatest SelvesThis was written by Rabbi Steven Exler of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - The Bayit (New York, NY) for Rosh Hashanah 2020/5781.
Listening to the Second Voice – Rosh Hashanah 2020This was written by Rabbi Jason Strauss of Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe (Brookline, MA) for Rosh Hashanah 2020/5781.
Questions Not Answers The Offerings of Our Matriarchs and Patriarchs Sermon for RH 5781Rabbi David G. Winship•1573 Views•September 30, 2020•2020,Rosh Hashanah,5781,Sermons,Sermons on Sefaria
Why We Fight – Yom Kippur 2020This was written by Rabbi Jason Strauss of Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe (Brookline, MA) for Yom Kippur 2020/5781.
High Holiday Sermon
A look at Kol Nidrei, including why the Ashkenazic and Sephardic versions are different.
Plagues, Modern Day Pharoah, Creating Holiness and Building for a Redeemed FutureThis was written by Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (New York, NY) for Kol Nidre 2020/5781.
Sharon Kleinbaum•1011 Views•September 30, 2020•Sermons on Sefaria,Yom Kippur Eve,Yom Kippur,2020,5781,Sermons,Kol Nidre
And Who By PlagueThis was written by Rabbi Matt Nover of Beth El Synagogue in East Windsor, NJ for Kol Nidre Evening 2020. Recorded Post Yom Kippur
Matt Nover•1193 Views•October 13, 2020•Sermons on Sefaria,Unetaneh Tokef,Sermons,Mishneh Torah,Teshuvah
Rabbi David Ingber's Neila/Yom Kippur SermonThis was written by Rabbi David Ingber of Kehilat Romemu (New York, NY) for Neila/Yom Kippur 2020/5781.
The Daily and the MundaneThis was written by Rabbi Annie Tucker of Temple Israel Center (White Plains, NY) for Yizkor on Yom Kippur 2020/5781.
RH Drash - Maggid Jhos SingerThis was written by Maggis John Singer of Chochmat HaLev (Berkeley, CA) for Rosh Hashanah 2020/5781.
Eych Nashir: How Can We Sing in Exile?This was written by Rabbi Mónica Gomery of Kol Tzedek (Philadelphia, PA) for Yom Kippur 2020/5781.
Mónica Gomery•1877 Views•October 7, 2020•Shirah,2020,Song,Shira,5781,Sermons,Sermons on Sefaria,Yom Kippur
Kol d’mama vs Kol Shofar: The Sounds of the AlmightyThis was written by Rabbi Alon Meltzer of Or Chadash Synagogue (Sydney, Australia) for Rosh Hashanah 2020/5781.
Not Published•Alon Meltzer•835 Views•October 12, 2020•Sermons on Sefaria,Rosh Hashanah,2020,5781,Sermons#afterallthosethings: Or Hagar and Isaac at the Well of ResilienceThis text sheet and sermon trace Isaac's experience after the Akedah, showing a path of resilience and recovery.
When We Can’t See the Future, Creating Light in the DarknessNot Published•Jen Gubitz•823 Views•October 16, 2020•Hope,Sermons,Covid19,Sermons on Sefaria,Adam and Eve,Havdalah"Why Are You Still Carrying Her?"High Holy Day Sermon - "Why are you still carrying her?"
"We Didn't Start the Fire"High Holy Day Sermon - We Didn't Start the Fire
"We're in the Prayerbook"High Holy Day Sermon - "We're in the Prayerbook"
Shabbat Shuvah 5781/2020 Fasting: Human Weakness or Human Greatness?Shabbat Shuvah 5781 Fasting: Human Weakness or Human Greatness?
Chaim Steinmetz•1279 Views•October 8, 2020•2020,5781,Sermons,Sermons on Sefaria,Shabbat Shuvah,Yom Kippur
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