Weekly Sermons

Each Friday night at Shabbat services, WRT clergy have the unique opportunity to address the congregation, allowing them to connect Jewish traditions and teachings with the experiences of today’s world. We invite you to watch and read a selection of recent weekly sermons.

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Recent Sermons

Jonathan E. Blake, Senior Rabbi

Bereshit 5784: With a Broken Heart

5783 Confirmation Service: But They Forgot the Books

5/8/23 Chai Society Shabbat 5783

Simchat Torah 5783: Remarks welcoming Rabbi Citrin

7/31/22  You’ve Stayed Too Long on This Mountain 
Sermon for 
Greater Centennial AME Zion Church

Shavuot/Confirmation 5782: To Vax Or Not to Vax?

Shabbat Behar 5782: Upon the Mountain – Tribute to Rabbi Reiser and  Rabbi Levy

Shabbat Emor 5782: To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky 
Chai Society Shabbat

Shabbat Vayigash 5782: Every Grain of Sand

Shabbat Vayetze 5782: May You Stay Forever Young

Sermon Noach 5782: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

5/28/21 Like A Rolling Stone

5/17/21 Shavuot – Confirmation 5781

4/23/21 Why We Chai

11/6/20  Don’t Look Back?

6/5/20 When the World Is Burning

5/30/20 Shavuot: The Angle of Your Tent, And Why It Matters

4/3/20 To Be A Kohen in Our Time

3/20/20 Reflections Inside Our Sacred Tent

3/20/20 Video – Vayakhel Pekudei 5780

1/24/20 The Being That Is Becoming

Leah Citrin, Associate Rabbi

June 3, 2022: B’midbar 5782

Guest Darshan:

8/4/23 Jon Friedman Our Present Past