Our Sermons
Creating The Conditions For A Miracle
This sermon was delivered at our service on Friday, February 7th, 2025. You can watch this sermon on Mishkan's YouTube channel or listen on Contact Chai podcast. **** Here’s a joke, thank you to 6th grader Ben Hirschberg for sharing it: How did Moses comb his hair? He...
Refuse To Be A Bystander
This sermon was delivered at our Saturday Morning Shabbat service on February 1st, 2025. You can listen to this drash on Contact Chai Podcast or watch it on Mishkan's YouTube channel. (Pictured: Roman Kent, Holocaust survivor, 1929 - 2021) **** Last week, I was in...
You Were Once An Immigrant, Too
This sermon was delivered at our Friday service on January 24th, 2025. You can watch it now on our YouTube channel or listen on Contact Chai podcast. **** For reasons that will become clearer in a few moments, I want to dedicate my D'var Torah to my mother's first...
The Oldest Trick in Pharaoh’s Book
This sermon was delivered at our Saturday morning service on January 18th, 2025. You can listen to this drash on Contact Chai podcast or watch on our YouTube channel. **** For those of you who have not yet seen it, I apologize in advance for spoiling a major plot...
Hope Is Not An Option — It’s An Obligation
This sermon was delivered at our Friday Night Shabbat service on January 10th, 2025. You can listen to this sermon on Contact Chai podcast or watch on Mishkan's YouTube channel. **** I woke up on Wednesday with a sore throat, which is not unusual when I’m on vacation...
Overcoming Vengeance: Esau and the Maccabees
This sermon was delivered at our Friday service on December 13th. You can watch it on Mishkan's YouTube channel or listen on Contact Chai podcast. **** Every week, when rabbis set up to write sermons for Shabbat, there’s always a lot that feeds into the process. First...