Our Sermons
Not Giving Up Our Seat at the Table
This sermon was delivered at our service on Friday, May 9th, 2025. You can watch it on our YouTube channel or listen on Contact Chai podcast. **** For a while, I have wondered if my friends secretly hate me. Not my closest friends. But people I am friendly with,...
Love is A Radical Act
This sermon was delivered at our service on April 19th. You can listen to this drash on Contact Chai podcast or watch on our YouTube channel. **** There is a text that comes near the end of the seder, after we have told the miraculous story of the Exodus and eaten...
Small Steps to Redemption
This sermon was delivered at our service on April 5th, 2025. You can watch it now on our YouTube channel or listen on Contact Chai podcast. **** I don’t know if you have seen the photos (or maybe you were there), but last weekend nearly a thousand people gathered...
Building A Community And Harnessing The Power of AI
This sermon was delivered at our service on March 21st, 2025. You can listen to this drash on Contact Chai podcast or watch it on our YouTube channel. **** This week’s Parshah is all about AI — artificial intelligence. What, you don’t think they had AI when the Torah...
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
This sermon was delivered at our service on March 1st, when we celebrated the BMitzvah of Selah Helphand. You can listen to this drash on Contact Chai podcast or watch it on Mishkan's YouTube channel. **** I’m really happy that Selah talked so much about art, both in...
Repro Shabbat — Chicago Abortion Fund
These remarks were delivered as part of Mishkan's 2025 Repro Shabbat service on February 21st. You can listen to excerpts from this sermon on Contact Chai podcast or watch on Mishkan's YouTube channel. **** My name is Alicia Hurtado, and I am here today on behalf of...