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Rabbi Ain’s Sermon Library
Yom Kippur Yizkor: Who sits beside us this year? A tribute to My grandmother, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and all of those we remember (September 28, 2020)
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Kol Nidre: Teshuva for the past, Education for the Future: An examination of the viruses of Anti Semitism and Racism (September 27, 2020)
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Erev Rosh Hashanah: Making Room for Ourselves and Others to Grow (September 18, 2020)
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Rosh Hashanah Day 1: What are the Important Questions We are Asking in 2020 (September 19, 2020)
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Rosh Hashanah Day 2: How Do We Listen with Integrity? (September 20, 2020)
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Rabbi Ain Sermon – Nitzavim 2019
Rabbi Ain Sermon – Parashat Ki Tavo 2019
Rabbi Ain Sermon – Parashat Ki Tetze 2019
Rabbi Ain Sermon – Shlach Lecha 2019
Rabbi Ain Sermon – Kedoshim 2019
Rabbi Ain Sermon – Aharei Mot 2019
Rabbi Ain Sermon March 9, 2019 -Pekudei 2019-What makes the Israelite community strong?
Rabbi Ain Sermon January 26, 2019 – Parashat Yitro
Rabbi Ain Sermon December 1, 2018
Chayeh Sarah 2018 – Reflecting on Pittsburgh
https://spsnyc.org/yom-kippur-2018/
https://spsnyc.org/kol-nidre-2018/
https://spsnyc.org/rosh-hashanah-2018-sermons/
Rabbi Ain Sermon July 14, 2018
Balak 2018: How Beautiful Are Our Tents – Rabbi Ain Sermon June 30, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon June 16, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon June 2, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon April 21, 2018 – Celebrating Israel at 70
Rabbi Ain Sermon March 24, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon March 10, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon March 3, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon February 10, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon February 3, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon January 13, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon January 6, 2018
Rabbi Ain Sermon November 28, 2017
Naso 2017-Stepping Forward into Leadership
When Memorial Day and Shavuot Coincide: The Importance of Remembering the Outsider
Behar Bechukotai 2017: Dreaming of a Redeemed Jerusalem on Yom Yerushalayim 2017
Tazria Metzora 2017 The Modern Jewish Holidays and Recalling the Sacrifices
Parashat Terumah 2017 – Finding Joy In Difficult Times
Parashat Bo 2017 – What does it mean to worship God?
Shmot 2017-Remarks on the weekend of the Presidential inauguration and the Women’s March
December 24, 2016: “Displaying gratitude not callousness”
Lech Lecha 2016 – On a Narrow Bridge toward a Promised Land
Shmini Atzeret Yizkor Sermon 2016
Kol Nidre/Yom Kippur 2016 Sermons
September 2016: “The Commitments We Must Make to One Another”
January 2016: Reflections on the Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Vayehi 2015: Ensuring the Covenant in the Diaspora
Yom Kippur 2015 – Living a Life we are proud of
Kol Nidre 2015 – Strengthening our Family Story
Feeling at Home: Rosh Hashanah Day 2 2015
Rosh Hashanah Day 1: What does God call us for and are we ready to answer?
Erev Rosh Hashanah 2015 – A Taste of the New Year
Shoftim 2015: Can we go home again (8/22)
Loving Israel Amidst the Struggle: Shabbat VaEtchanan/Nachamu 2015 (8/1)
Balak 2015 Blessing the USA and Each Other (7/4)
The Significance of the Menorah in our Lives (6/9)
Understanding luxury and our role in the nail salon controversy (5/23)
What does being a stiff-necked people mean? (3/15)
Mishpatim: Communal Obligations should Extend to Vaccines (2/15)
Responding in the Face of Injustice – In the Bible and Today (12/14)
The Complexity of Our Birthright (11/14)