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Our Choices Are For the Future
Yom Kippur Morning Sermon/5783-2022 Rabbi Heidi Cohen How do our choices affect us? And do they only affect us? It’s like the pebble that, when tossed into the water, creates ripples for as far as it can go. Today, we read in our Torah: You stand this day, all of you, before your God יהוה […]
Integrity in 2022
Kol Nidrei Sermon – 5783/2022 Rabbi Heidi Cohen Recently, we’ve been wrestling with the state of our world, our country, our community? Why is it people are behaving the way they do? Over the past few years we saw the best in people as they supported each other at the beginning of Covid. And we […]
Reproductive Rights Is A Jewish Value
Rosh Hashanah Sermon – 5783/2022 Rabbi Heidi Cohen On June 24 we were all shocked yet not surprised. 50 years after Roe v Wade was passed, after the Supreme Court ruled that a woman had the right to her own reproductive care, it was taken away. It was as if the rug was pulled out […]
What is Freedom? Especially Today
Judaism exists because of freedom. Our text says often, ‘remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Eternal freed you.’ Shortly after our leaving Egypt and being free, we were given the responsibility of Torah and the 613 commandments. Our Jewish journey began here with learning the commandments and integrating them into our new […]
Protecting Our Children Does Not Mean Silencing Them
We would like to think that we live in a progressive times. We include our pronouns on our zoom names and signatures to emails. We respect and celebrate every person’s gender identity. We know that every family is unique and there is no one size/gender fits all. We encourage our children to be who they […]
Invest in HaNefesh at the End of 2021
Checks can be sent to: HaNefesh15333 Culver Dr.Suite 340-2AIrvine, CA 92604 HaNefesh is about building Jewish life without “Building Funds.” Our concrete and mortar are the strong relationships that bind our community together, the learning that provides a foundation of knowledge and enrichment, and the spiritual connections that uplift our souls toward wholeness, breath, and […]
We Are So Excited to be a Part of Something Big
This week, in our Torah portion, Vayishlach, we continue to see Jacob’s transformation. He comes from a family who shares a covenant with God. His mother made sure that he was destined to continue that line by helping him get the birthright blessing from his father, Isaac. And last week, he made a deal with […]
Halloween…Festival of Chocolate…Jews, Golems and Ghosts
This Sunday is Halloween, a night of dressing up in costumes, knocking on stranger’s doors and asking for candy! What kid doesn’t like this day! And parents even enjoy the trick or treating with the caveat to our youth, ‘oh, you don’t need all of that candy’ and then we pick out our favorite, stashing […]
