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Category Archives: Funerals
Who Can See What Will Happen After?
Who can see what will happen after? Continue reading
Old Challeges Anew – The Reality of Mortality (Yom Kippur Memorial 5780)
Just because we have been saying goodbye for thousands of years does not mean it has gotten easier. Continue reading
Then and Now – Yom Kippur Memorial 5779
The present becomes past very quickly – it is shocking to find what we think of as current events in a history book. Yet sometimes time collapses and past becomes present, especially when we remember deep connections. The perspective we gain on intimate loss provides consolation when then becomes now again. Continue reading
“It’s All For the Best” – Nizkor 2017
What do we say if we know, deep in our hearts, that this death was not “all for the best”? Continue reading
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Darkness and Light – A Eulogy
This eulogy was delivered January 1, 2017 for a friend and colleague, David J. Steiner, who died tragically at age 51 in a bus accident in Uganda in late December 2016. You can read some of his writings or an … Continue reading
And You – Yom Kippur Memorial 5777
This post was originally delivered as a Yom Kippur sermon at Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in 2016/5777 as part of a series entitled “This We Believe.” You can hear audio of the sermon through the Kol Hadash Podcast. No one ever said … Continue reading
Posted in Funerals, Holidays, Humanistic Judaism journal
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Let Go – Yom Kippur Memorial 5776
This post was originally delivered as a Yom Kippur sermon at Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in 2015/5776 as part of a series entitled “The Simplest Things.” You can hear audio of the sermon through the Kol Hadash Podcast. Last November, a … Continue reading
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
This post was originally delivered as part of a High Holidays sermon at Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in 2008; this year’s High Holidays topics are available here. This post previously appeared in 2014 on the Grief Beyond Belief blog and is re-posted from that site … Continue reading
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When Life Seems Too Much, We Are the Most Human
This post was originally delivered as part of a High Holidays sermon at Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in 2008; this year’s High Holidays topics are available here. This post previously appeared in 2014 on the Grief Beyond Belief blog and is re-posted from that … Continue reading
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How and Why
A version of this article appeared in The Shofar newsletter of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in August 2012. One of the challenges of a Humanistic philosophy of life is that we sometimes answer the wrong question. When terrible things happen we … Continue reading
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Shalom from Rabbi Chalom 