Sermon: Ve'etchanan 5779
Sep. 6th, 2019 04:04 pmI was asked at somewhat short notice to give a sermon, and we're supposed to write up sermons to share around and for accessibility reasons. I've been procrastinating on writing down what I said for a couple of weeks, not because it's aversive in any way, just because it never quite made it to the top of my priority queue. So I reckoned if I put it in a DW post, the old habits of typing things here would unblock me, and maybe a small handful of people are interested in what I had to say about the Torah reading from a couple of weeks ago.
( contains theodicy and glancing references to genocide )
As ever, please feel free to ask for more detail if any of this is confusing or too jargony. I pitched it at a relatively knowledgeable Jewish community, though it turned out my congregation included a Christian first-time visitor and a recent convert who wasn't really familiar with how midrashic interpretation works, so that was an interesting Kiddush after the service explaining some of this from first principles...
( contains theodicy and glancing references to genocide )
As ever, please feel free to ask for more detail if any of this is confusing or too jargony. I pitched it at a relatively knowledgeable Jewish community, though it turned out my congregation included a Christian first-time visitor and a recent convert who wasn't really familiar with how midrashic interpretation works, so that was an interesting Kiddush after the service explaining some of this from first principles...
