Some of Rabbi Betsy’s and Members’ Sermons

Shabbat March 9, 2024: Let’s Spin Some Goats (Vayekhel)

Shabbat February 17, 2024: Cozy in the Mishkan (T’rumah)

Shabbat January 6, 2024: We Don’t Belong in Egypt (Sh’mot)

Shabbat December 20, 2023: Hoping, Seriously (Vayechi)

Shabbat December 23, 2023: Learning To Be Our Siblings’ Keepers (Vayigash)

Shabbat December 9, 2023: In the Field (Vayeishev, deals with Israel)

Solidarity Shabbat October 28, 2023: In This Moment

Shabbat October 14, 2023: One Heart

Shabbat Sh’mini Atzeret (Yizkor) 5784: To Feel What We Need

Shabbat Yom Tov Sukkot 5784: Abundant Rejoicing

Yom Kippur (day) 5784: Wondering About

Erev Yom Kippur 5784: On Being Spiritual/Religious

Shabbat Shuvah 5784: Why Do We Jew in the Ways that We Do?

Rosh HaShanah 5784: Israel Wrestling

Erev Rosh HaShanah 5784: Another Take

Shabbat September 2, 2023: Lorrie Klemons on Walking in God’s Ways

Shabbat Hol HaMoed Pesach 5783: Aviv in its Season, Greening Our Corner of the World

Shabbat April 1, 2023: Free To Be (Tzav & Shabbat HaGadol)

Shabbat March 18, 2023: Daniel Levitin’s d’var on writing new Torah scrolls (Vayakhel-Pekudei)

Shabbat March 4, 2023: Nahafokh, Nahafokh (Tetzaveh, Shabbat Zakhor)

Shabbat February 25, 2023: You’re My Angel Baby (Terumah)

Shabbat February 4, 2023: Repro Shabbat

Shabbat January 28, 2023: Much to Pray (Bo)

Sunday, January 15, 2023: MLK Ecumenical Service: Hope for What You Imagine, Despite What You See

Shabbat January 14, 2023: Living The Dream (Sh’mot, MLK Shabbat)

Shabbat January 7, 2023: Leslie Greenspan’s Hazak D’var, Launching 75th Anniversary Torah Scroll Project (Vayechi)

Shabbat November 26, 2022: Calling Out to God From Maybe (Toldot)

Shabbat October 30, 2022: The Peril of Unity (Noach)

Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot 5783: A Little Haiku on a Busy Shabbat

Yom Kippur day 5783: We Are Not Sheep

Erev Yom Kippur 5783: I Believe in You

Rosh Hashanah 5783: Speaking of Israel

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5783: Avraham’s Faith and Sarah’s Faith

Shabbat August 6, 2022: Eicha—How Did We Get Here? (D’varim)

Shabbat July 30, 2022: We Don’t Cancel Torah (Mattot-Massei)

Shabbat June 11, 2022: The Space Between Far and Near (Naso)

Shabbat April 30, 2022: To the Max: Reflections on Jewish Life in Israel This Pesach (Acharei Mot)

Shabbat April 9, 2022: Good Torah (Metzorah/Shabbat HaGadol)

Shabbat April 2, 2022: Chametz Riddance (Shabbat HaChodesh)

Shabbat Feb. 26, 2022: The Head and the Heart (Vayakhel)

Shabbat Feb. 19, 2022: No Time for Resentment (Ki Tissa)

Shabbat Feb. 12, 2022: Dress With Success (Tetzaveh)

Shabbat Feb. 5, 2022: That Good Feeling (Terumah)

Shabbat Jan. 29, 2022: Do, Listen, Repeat. (Mishpatim)

Shabbat Jan. 15, 2022: MLK Shabbat (B’Shallach)- D’var by Sally Jones, Social Justice Committee Co-Chair

Shabbat Dec. 11- Vayigash- Rachel Cordasco’s D’var Torah

Shabbat Nov. 7, 2021: Filling Wells (Toldot)

Shabbat Oct. 30, 2021: Making Shiva More Helpful, Jewishly (Chayei Sarah) - 2nd of 2 Divrei Torah on Shiva

Shabbat Oct. 23, 2021: Welcoming Presence, or When is Kugel Just Kugel? (Vayera) - 1st of 2 Divrei Torah on Shiva)

Yom Kippur Yizkor 5782: Perceiving in Rubble

Kol Nidrei 5782: How Did I Get Here?

Rosh HaShanah 5782: Hayom Harat Olam

Erev Rosh HaShanah 5782: My Sovereign, My Self: A Nosidam Tale

Shabbat May 10, 2021: In the Wilderness (B’midbar)

Shabbat March 20, 2021: Doing Difficult Things (Vayikra)

D’var Torah by Matt Banks, Erev Shabbat 3/12/21 (Vayahel-Pekudey)

Shabbat February 13, 2021: Bob Skloot’s Torah Study on Reparations (Mishpatim)

Shabbat February 6, 2021: To Be Commanded (Yitro)

D’var Torah by Maureen Miner, Erev Shabbat 01/29/21: B’Shallakh

Shabbat January 22, 2021: King, Heschel, and Us (Bo)

Shabbat January 9, 2021: It Does Not Have to Be This Way (Sh’mot)

D’var Torah by Sara Karon, Erev Shabbat 01/08/21 (Shemot)

D’var torah by Matt Banks, Erev Shabbat 01/01/21 (Vayechi)

Shabbat Shalom Letters 12/11/20, 12/18/20, 01/01/21, 01/08/21

D’var Torah by Josh Garoon, Erev Shabbat 12/26/20: Vayyigash

Shabbat December 12, 2020: Majority Rule (Vayishev, Human Rights Shabbt)

Shabbat December 5, 2020: Kedusha, a Vort for a Tisch (Vayishlach)

Shabbat Shalom Letters 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4

D’var Torah by Matt Banks, Erev Shabbat 11/27/20: Vayeitzei

Shabbat November 21, 2021: On Being Yaacov and Esav (Toldot)

Marsha Cohen’s Erev Shabbat D’var, 11/2/20: Stars (Toldot)

Shabbat Shalom Letters 10/16, 23, 30; 11/6

D’var Torah by Matt Banks, Erev Shabbat 10/30/20: Lech L’cha

Shabbat October 24, 2021: Better than Right (Noah)

Sara Karon’s Erev Shabbat D’var, 10/16/20: Pure Souls (Breishit)

Shabbat Yom Tov Sh’mini Atzeret 10/10/20: Stay.

Shabbat Shalom Letters 9/11, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9

Shabbat Yom Tov Sukkot September 3: Take a Lulav

Yom Kippur Morning (Yizkor): We Are Here

Erev Yom Kippur 2021: Re-Creation

Susie Drazen’s D’var Torah on Erev Shabbat Shuvah, Sept. 23, 2020 (Ha’azinu)

Rosh Hashanah Morning (Day 1), 2021: The Abyss, the Shard, and the Song

Erev Rosh HaShanah 2021: The Beit Midrash of the Birds

Shabbat September 5, 2020: Overcome by a Little Good (Ki Tavo)

Shabbat Shalom letters 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4

Matt Banks’ Erev Shabbat D’var, Aug. 7: Eikev

Matt Banks’ Erev Shabbat D’var, July 24: D’varim

Shabbat July 18, 2020: Pride Shabbat: Reflections from the Edge of the Wilderness (Mattot-Massei)

Still Safer At Home Shabbat Letters 6/26, 7/3, 7/10, 7/17

Fran Schrag’s Erev Shabbat D’var, June 30: Hukkat

Josh Garoon’s Erev Shabbat D’var, June 19: Naming Names (Sh’lach)

Matt Banks’ Erev Shabbat D’var, June 12: B’ha’alot’cha

Gradually Re-Opening Shabbat Letters 5/22, 6//5, 6/12, 6/19

Shabbat June 13: Time to Step Up (B’ha’alot’cha)

“Safer at Home” Shabbat Letters 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, & 5/15.2020

“Safer at Home” Shabbat Letters 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, & 4/17/2020

Shabbat March 21: How We Gather (Vayakhel/P’kudei)

Shabbatot February 22 through March 14, 2020 (List of what happened on those dates)

Shabbat February 15, 2020: Freedom and Covenant (Yitro)

Shabbat February 8, 2020: The Song and the Truth of Our Lives (B’shallach)

Shabbat February 1, 2020: Darkness (Bo)

Shabbat January 25, 2020: Words and Things (Va’era)

Shabbat January 18, 2020: Names Still Matter (Sh’mot)

Shabbat January 3, 2020: Come Close (Vayigash)

Shabbat December 21, 2019: I Wanna Hear a Heartbeat (Vayeishev)

Shabbat October 26, 2019: Hope on a Raft (B’reishit)

Shmini Atzeret 5780 Yizkor, Oct. 21, 2019: Love and Memory

Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot, Oct. 19, 2019: Where Blessing Begins

Yom Kippur (day) 5780: Divine Connection

Kol Nidrei 5780: Toward Forgiveness

Shabbat Shuvah 5780- Outer Work and Inner Work (Vayeilech)

Rosh HaShanah I 5780: Torah is My Delight

Erev Rosh HaShanah 5780: My Beloved Knocks

Shabbat September 27, 2019- Heaven and Earth (Nitzavim)

Shabbat September 20, 2019- Where is God? (Ki Tavo)

Shabbat September 13, 2019- Slippery Slopes (Ki Teitzei)

Shabbat September 6, 2019- From Despair to Hope (Shoftim)

Shabbat March 30, 2019- Holey Holy Humans (Sh’mini)

Shabbat: March 2, 2019- Top Priority: Not To Do, But to Be (Vayakhel)

Shabbat February 23, 2019- Missing the Signs (Ki Tissa)

Shabbat: January 5, 2019- Make Some Noise (Va’era)

Shabbat: December 22, 2018- Teach Your Children Well (Vayechi)

Shabbat- November 25, 2018- What is Your Name? (Vayishlach)

Shabbat- November 10, 2018- Bob Skloot’s D’var on Kristallnacht and Genocide

Shabbat- October 27, 2018- Testing, Testing (Vayera)

Shabbat- October 12, 2018- On Being Righteous (Noach)

Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot- September 29, 2018 Raise Ourselves Up

Yom Kippur 5779- A Heart of Wisdom

Kol Nidrei 5779- The Purpose of Torah (on two feet)

Shabbat- September 1, 2018- Blessings and Curses (Ki Tavo)

Shabbat- August 26, 2018- The Speaking Spirit (Ki Teitzei)

Shabbat- August 11, 2018 - Re'ei- Torah for Tatts

Shabbat - August 4, 2018 - Eikev- Let's Get Physical

Shabbat - July 28, 2018 - Va'Etchanan- Under the Mountain

Shabbat - July 14, 2018 - Mattot-Mas'ei- The Mitzvah of Imagination

Shabbat - July 7, 2018 - Pinchas- Peering Into the Breech