| Abstrakt: |
Yom Kippur is a time for planning for the future as much as repenting for the past. Atonement is the ritual preparation for how we will act, how we will engage and how we will participate in covenant in the year ahead. In the wake of one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history, Jews must decide how each of us will act to transform the conditions of poverty and racism revealed starkly by Hurricane Katrina. In the tradition of personally experiencing covenant, we are each called to make choices every day that radically affirm lift This sermon was preached for Congregation Kol HaNeshamah, 10 Tishri, 5766, October 13, 2005 in Seattle, WA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
