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Rabbi Ain’s Sermon Library
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)