Morgan's Sermons
Friday, April 1st, 2022 - April Fools: The Power in Humor
Friday, December 24th, 2021- Knowing the Other: A New Pharaoh in Sh'mot
Friday, October 15th, 2021-Lech Lecha and Blessings
Friday, January 31st, 2021-Women Dancing With Their Timbrels: How to Pack for the Desert
Friday, January 1st, 2021-Vayechi, 2020, and the Power of Stories
Saturday, September, 2020-Yom Kippur The Step After the Whale: Compassion and Action in the Story of Jonah
Saturday, May 16th, 2020- Allowing Something Beautiful to Grow
Friday, April 24, 2020 - Tazria-Metzora: Rituals for Physical and Spiritual Health
Tazria-Metzora reads like an ancient medicinal doctrine, but what can it teach us about the connection between physical, spiritual, and emotional health? What can we do to safeguard ourselves spiritually and emotionally while we are distanced physically?
Friday, March 27, 2020 - Vayikra: Creating Light and Drawing Close
What we can learn from Leviticus about community and drawing close during this time of social distancing.
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - The Land of Egypt: An Environmental Reading of the Ten Plagues
The story of the ten plagues has a lot to teach us about the relationship between people and the natural world...
Friday, January 3rd - Vayigash: Drawing Near and the Strength in Vulnerability
What the titular word in Parashat Vayigash tells us about the power of vulnerability in conflict
Sat, April 20 2024
12 Nisan 5784
Morgan is our Youth Coordinator, running youth programming for congregants grades pre-K to 12th. Growing up in Sacramento, she was incredibly involved in her synagogue, B'nai Israel, where she helped lead music and services during the religious school, was a madricha, and volunteered in the Cantor's office. After graduation, she attended UCSB, where she majored in English and Religious Studies and graduated a member of Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society for religious studies. In her Torah study and sermon writing she enjoys combining her Biblical Hebrew and Judaic studies with the literary critique and analysis she learned in undergrad. She plans on one day going to Rabbinical school to become a Rabbi. She is excited and thankful to have an opportunity to work at Shomrei Torah and to work with and learn from Rabbi Stephanie and Rabbi George.
Table of Contents
April Fools: The Power of Humor
Knowing the Other: A New Pharaoh in Sh'mot
Women Dancing With the Timbrels: What to Pack for the Desert
Vayechi, 2020, and the Power of Stories
Yom Kippur: The Step after the Whale: Compassion and Action in the Story of Jonah
Sabbatical and Jubilee: Allowing Something Beautiful to Grow
Tazria-Metzora: Rituals for Physical and Spiritual Health
Vayikra: Creating Light and Drawing Close
The Land of Egypt: An Environmental Reading of the Ten Plagues
