Congregation Shir Ami

Membership in beloved community isn’t merely showing up: it’s a heart courageous enough to open, to touch and be touched. It’s about casting our lot with a greater good in all our beautiful, complex and sometimes maddening diversity – which ultimately is our great strength. Notice if your heart is calloused over, and why. Lean into these precious days – even amidst all that is happening, even amidst the hurt – to awaken your heart, thin its protective veil and feel again the fullness of what poet Mary Oliver called our "one wild and precious life."

– Rabbi David's sermon for Rosh Hashanah 2024 (5785)

Our Shared Heart – Sermon for Rosh Hashanah 5785 (2024) Judaism's time-tested superpower is community – not because it's easy, not because we're similar, but because community is the mainstay channel for the kind of existential love that heals...