Glow-in-the-Dark Judaism

Rabbi Rachel Kobrin's Rosh HaShana 5787 sermon given at Congregation Rodef Shalom, Denver.

The temple was destroyed and we were kicked out of our land because our own leaders lacked creative thinking and failed to come up with a real and viable solution when it mattered. We cannot let this happen again. Day 253 of the war in Gaza.

The war in Israel and Gaza — and the challenges of being a rabbi, a human, a Zionist right now. The struggles and the worries that are tearing away at all sides of my heart. What are the “right things” to be worried about? What does it mean for us to be part of a community in which people are worrying about different aspects of this war in different proportions? My personal wrestling — the pieces that are keeping me up at 3:00 in the morning.