by Sonja Kantor | Sep 27, 2020 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver
There is a moment each year in which I personally prepare for the High Holy Days. It usually occurs only a few days before services. All our cues are prepared, books are set out, the wall between the Social Hall and the Sanctuary is opened, and pristine lines of...
by IHC | Oct 8, 2019 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Tonight is Kol Nidrei, the most meditative and moving moment of the Jewish liturgical year. This day marks the culmination of the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah, the Ten Days of Repentance. Through the prayerbook, our Machzor, we have been bombarded with petitions and pleas...
by IHC | Sep 29, 2019 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Once the congregation found itself in the middle of a fierce debate. Do we stand or sit for the Shema. Half the group was convinced that we should stay seated for the Shema, half convinced we stood for the Shema. Not to get into too many technicalities on Rosh...
by IHC | Mar 15, 2019 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
I remember visiting Prague years ago with several friends. Tami and I decided it would be meaningful to spend Shabbat there with the local community, rather than visit only the Jewish cemeteries and monuments to those lost to the Holocaust, including the famous attic...
by IHC | Nov 15, 2018 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
I have taken many bus rides through the desert. The rabbis who gathered in a Texas desert yesterday, many after a pilgrimage from the farthest reaches of our country – from East Coast and West, from Chicago and Michigan, Indiana and all points in between joked with...
by IHC | Nov 2, 2018 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Once there was a man who was devastated with sorrow. He found that he could not work, could not eat, could not care for himself or his family. Not knowing where to turn, he went to see his rabbi. “Rabbi,” he cried, “my sorrows are overwhelming. They threaten to drown...
