tonight's mini-sermon

The Thursday mincha (or, in the winter, ma'ariv) service includes a little mini-sermon (2 minutes or so). The rabbis are away and no one else wanted to lead today's service, so this fell to me. (This is, by the way, the aspect of leading a service that most intimidates me. I'm fine with other people's words...)

These ones are done informally, and reading from something prepared would just be wrong. (Besides, I'm not a good-enough public speaker to make that work.) So this is very approximately what I tried to say. ( Read more... )