Preaching Goes Viral

Reflect, Repair and solve: Taking responsibility for our very lives (Erev Rosh HaShanah)

R1: Main claim or thesis (supported by much of the sermon or primary source)

Silver lining: Blessed, grateful, or upbeat about the pandemic

M2: Membership and audience attachment to a social group (not just to God, faith, or religious practices)

Change is essential and it is tough.  Our family and friends, professionals such as doctors and therapists, journaling and flat out willpower can help us change.  Here at Central our communal worship, study, meditations and relationships with each another can also help to strengthen our resolve.  When we finish reading a book of Torah here, we proclaim Hazak Hazak V’nitchazek – be strong be strong and together we will be strengthened. We say this, because when we study Torah, pray and engage in community with one another we are strengthening our pledge to being the people we want to be.  So it is with us tonight.  Together, we bolster each other. In the beginning there was Adam and Eve.  We may be their descendants, but we do not have to repeat their mistakes.  We can forge another path forward.

2022-12-13

Maurice A. Salth

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