Erev Rosh Hashanah 2015
Who are we?
When we say we are Jewish, what are we saying?
When our children ask us what it means to be Jewish, what can we say to them? How much are we able to articulate, even to ourselves, this aspect of our identity? And for those in our community who are not Jewish, but who have chosen to join us by marriage, what does it mean to them?
Who are we? It is my impression that it is getting more and more difficult to answer this question, which suggests that this is the ideal time to consider it anew. Some of the difficulty in answering this question lies in our own sense of inadequacy or ignorance or anxiety about our Jewishness, and some of the difficulty lies in the changing nature of identity in our culture in general.
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Who are we?
When we say we are Jewish, what are we saying?
When our children ask us what it means to be Jewish, what can we say to them? How much are we able to articulate, even to ourselves, this aspect of our identity? And for those in our community who are not Jewish, but who have chosen to join us by marriage, what does it mean to them?
Who are we? It is my impression that it is getting more and more difficult to answer this question, which suggests that this is the ideal time to consider it anew. Some of the difficulty in answering this question lies in our own sense of inadequacy or ignorance or anxiety about our Jewishness, and some of the difficulty lies in the changing nature of identity in our culture in general.
click here for complete sermon