Shabbat Noach 2024

“‘How are you?’ Was neither an easy question to hear nor an easy question to ask someone else on Wednesday morning, but we need to start there,” Rabbi Jason Klein began his drashah on Shabbat Lech Lecha 2024, just a week after the 2024 election. He went on to describe the importance of self-reflection and the role that others in our community can play in helping us figure out how we are. He also spoke about the weekly Parsha, drawing parallels between the current moment and Avram and Sarai’s journey and the time it took to prepare to change the world. 

Rabbi Klein ended his talk by saying: “The second time I woke up on Wednesday morning, the time I was willing to actually get up and go about my day. I said, Good morning to some people in the lobby of my building. How are you they asked. I found myself tensing up, fine, not fine. Wait. What do you mean? Who’d you vote for? Who’s that? What? Why am I? Why am I judging you? What? Okay, I finally got to kind of, you know, how are you? Let’s do some turning inward for a little longer. Let’s find out how we really are, even if it takes a friend or a stranger or someone you just met tonight who’s maybe a stranger no more, saying no, but really, how are you? And let’s push that question on ourselves, really, how am I? How are each of us? Let’s make sure we get there authentically ourselves to answer that question, and let’s do that for each other.”

Rabbi Jason Klein delivered this drashah at Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, November 8, 2024 / 8 Cheshvan 5784. 

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