5766 HIGH HOLIDAY SERMONS		5766 BULLETIN ARTICLES
Rosh Hashanah 5766 "Redeeming the Name" Kol Nidre 5766 "On the Art of Becoming a Mensch" Yom Kippur Morning 5766 "This is the Day"		May 2006 "A Teacher's Teacher " April 2006 "They Say it's Your Birthday" March 2006 "The Underlying Truth of Cartoons" January 2006 "My Early Hanukkah Gift" December 2005 "Performing Miracles" November 2005 "down to the Lower East Side..." October 2005 "Becoming Something" September 2005 "In Pursuit of the Art of Living"

“I believe in religion. I believe in religion’s power to transform. I believe in religion’s pursuit of peace. I believe in religion’s instinct for compassion. But I also fear religion. I fear what religion can do to people, or better put, what people can do with religion. I fear those for whom faith is a matter of loyalty. I fear those who see God but are blind to man.”  Rosh Hashanah 5766

“In Judaism ours as human beings is to be shitufei Adonai—partners with God in the process of creation. We are the saving grace of the universe. God cannot redeem the world without us. Which is to say, without a world to be repaired there would have been no need to create humanity.”  Kol Nidre 5766

“I have learned that life does not follow an orderly time-line. Things do not go simply from bad to good (or the other way around). Rather, they all co-exist. Bad and good. Pain and joy. In fact, they are so inextricably intertwined, so enmeshed and interwoven like threads in a fabric that one cannot completely separate one from the other. And yet, if given the choice—which we have each day—we will more often than not choose the dark side, blind to the milk and honey that fills life. We see the small and miss the big. We feel the ‘fear’ at the expense of the ‘awe’. The challenge is to be able to sort them out, to distinguish the bad from the good, to ‘choose life’…”  Yom Kippur 5766