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Posted on January 15, 2025

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Yizkor: Remembering and Forgetting to Remember, Rabbi Lisa Eiduson, Yizkor 5785-2024

Posted on October 25, 2024

Yom Kippur Yizkor Sermon 2024 Rabbi Lisa Eiduson Temple Shir Tikva   Wayland MA   Writer Jesse Wegman tells this story: “Off Route 6 on Cape Cod, a few miles in from the bay near Yarmouth, Mass., there hides a giant ancient English weeping beech tree. The tree is so big that it has its own parking Continue Reading »

Transforming Loneliness into Opportunities for Community (Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024)

Posted on October 11, 2024

  Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2024 Transforming Loneliness into Opportunities for Community Rabbi Lisa Eiduson Temple Shir Tikva   Wayland MA   The English writer and scholar Noreena Hertz reflects on her childhood: “‘My throat hurts. It’s burning. It really hurts. I can’t go to school.’ It is a year of constant sore throats, streaming noses, Continue Reading »

Who Says Miracles Don’t Happen Anymore . . .?

Posted on October 10, 2023

By Rabbi Lisa Eiduson On July 25, the New York Times reported, a woman named Peggy Jones and her husband Wendell, learned a lesson in a most usual way. They were home, doing yardwork in Silsbee, Texas, about 100 miles from Houston. Suddenly, a snake fell from the clear blue sky and landed right on Continue Reading »

Choosing Imperfection: Lessons for the New Year from Barbie

Posted on October 10, 2023

By Rabbi Lisa Eiduson “It is the best day ever. So was yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and every day from now until forever.” Words from the block-buster summer movie Barbie –now Warner Brothers’ highest-grossing domestic film release in history. It is more than a rage. It is an entire movement called “Barbiecore.” Did you Continue Reading »