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What's God Have to Do With It?
A High Holiday Sermon delivered by by Rabbi Sid Schwarz at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, MD
Yom Kippur 2007Some of you will remember the old Art Linkletter show. His signature piece on the show was his interviews with children which he later compiled in a book called Kids Say the Darndest Things. I thought of this when I recently picked up a book entitled, Children’s Letters to God. Here are a few excerpts:
“Dear God:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/whats-god-have-do-it
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:32am
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Being Part of the Universe
Let us begin by remembering that the spiritual always points toward the unity of things, not their division. Judaism tries to help us to work from a higher perspective. To celebrate the creation of the world, as we do on Rosh Hashanah, is to see ourselves as an integral part of all that is and not to see ourselves as the measure of all things. The egotistical, self-centered part of our mind, “the evil urge” if you will, always leads us to experience our separateness from the natural world.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/being-part-universe
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 12:54pm
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Jacob Staub KI Talk on Reconstructionism
In this talk given at Congregation Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades, California, Rabbi Jacob Staub explores what makes Reconstructionist communities unique. Selected quotes follow. The entire call transcript is available at the bottom of this page.
Posted on: 2016/10/28 - 1:11am
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Toba Spitzer on Process Theology
Originally delivered on Yom Kippur 5770 at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/changing-equation-reflection-god
Posted on: 2016/11/29 - 1:32pm
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For the Sake of the World: Toba Spitzer on peoplehood and mission
Originally delivered at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, Rosh Hashanah 5764
Where do we first hear about Rosh Hashanah? In the Torah, in the book of Leviticus, we read:
Adonai spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelites, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be for you a day a rest, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of the shofar, a holy assembly. (23:23).
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/sake-world
Posted on: 2016/11/29 - 1:38pm
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The Reconstructionist Revolution (PEARL call, Jane Litman)
In this hour-long conference call, Rabbi Jane Litman presents an overview of the revolutionary ideas that underlie the first century of Reconstructionist Judaism.
Selected quotes follow. The entire call transcript is available at the bottom of this page.
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 6:51pm
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Bronstein teaching call - Hasidic lens on Parashat Bo
Today I want to share with you some of what I think are the most astounding, and provocative, and informative Jewish messages that we have available to us as Reconstructionists, as Jews in general today. But they come from a place that you might never think to look: the 18th-century and 19th-century Hasidic commentaries on the Torah.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/hasidic-lens-parashat-bo
Posted on: 2016/12/01 - 5:11pm
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Light Through The Cracks - DW
Recently on the radio, I listened to the new president vigorously assert his belief in the effectiveness of torture. This is not news: he had made his views on the topic clear as a candidate. But this radio report was further evidence, piled onto President Trump’s intimidation of the media and his assertions that falsehoods are truths and truths falsehoods, that we are living in a new reality, where the leader of the free world champions the practices of despots and dictators.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/light-through-cracks
Posted on: 2017/02/01 - 2:51pm
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Nothing Neutral About It: Inspired by Reconstructionist Judaism in Switzerland
Brugg, Switzerland Posted on: 2017/03/16 - 3:05pm
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Asking for Help - JJS
It can be extremely difficult to ask for help.
Contemporary Western secular culture prizes autonomy and self-reliance. From a very early age, we are taught that it is better to be independent than dependent, so that corporations have to train their employees to work cooperatively and interdependently.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/asking-help
Posted on: 2014/01/29 - 12:00am