In this Yom Kippur sermon, Rabbi Tovlev gets deep and vulnerable about his past struggles with depression. He shares that this darkness has given him heightened appreciation of the light. Many of us go through our days focusing on putting one foot in front of the other, not noticing the blessings that surround us. When we pause to look around, we can see the beauty and goodness in our world and our lives. We only have one life to live, but are we truly living?

"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things." An exploration into kindness and situations when kindness is not nice. We must be people who resist oppression even when we go against the status quo and risk our reputations.

Rosh Hashanah sermon about belief & disbelief in God

A Rosh Hashanah sermon on the power of showing up in community and bearing witness to each other's pain

"the heart is never so open / as when it is broken / let it break, let it break"

A prayer for peace

Anyone who has been in love knows how otherworldly the feeling is: the out-of-body feeling of weightlessness, the in-the-body feeling of...

I'm having some thoughts on some of the responses to the hatred brewing in the US, namely the two following ideas: no one is born knowing...