Yom Kippur Yizkor Sermon 5778 September 30, 2017 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen Let Me Not Die While I am Still Alive “Let me not die while I am still alive,” a prayer possibly uttered by Hannah when she prayed in the Temple of Shiloh for a child. So desperate and inconsolable in her grief of […]
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Rabbi Cohen’s Yom Kippur Morning 5778 Sermon – TBS as a Community of Social Justice
Yom Kippur Morning 5778 September 30, 2017 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen TBS as a Community of Social Justice On Rosh Hashanah we listened to the shofar blast. Over and over we are taught that the shofar is a reminder to us to wake up and pay attention to what we are doing in our lives, […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Rosh Hashanah 5778 Sermon – The Lessons Our Daughter Taught Us When She Went to College
Rosh Hashanah Morning 5778 September 21, 2017 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen The Lessons Our Daughter Taught Us When She Went to College I love our hakafah. It’s the time when I walk around this entire sanctuary and see everyone who is here. I purposefully turn off my mic to make sure that I can say […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Erev Rosh Hashanah 5778 Sermon – Who Are You?
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5778 September 20, 2017 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen Who Are You? Who are you? In many ways, this is a very easy question to answer, at least on the surface. You meet someone new, extend your hand and introduce yourself, ‘Hi, I’m Rabbi Cohen’ or ‘Hi, I’m Heidi,’ depending on the […]
Watch the L’Chaim Tribute Video for Rabbi Cohen
Thank you to all who attended this past weekend’s TBS Gala: L’Chaim – A Musical Tribute to Rabbi Heidi Cohen. We are so thankful for the outpouring of support from our congregants and friends! For those of you who were not able to attend, we would like to share with you the video presentation of tributes […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Yom Kippur Yizkor 5777 Sermon – “Trying to Remember Her Voice”
Yom Kippur Yizkor Service 5777 October 12, 2016 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen Trying to Remember Her Voice I keep trying to remember the sound of my Gramma Thelma’s voice. I remember things she would say to me, like I was her little ba’lei busta, or how we would spend time together in her home […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Yom Kippur Morning 5777 Sermon – “Do Not Remain Indifferent”
Yom Kippur Morning 5777 October 12, 2016 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen Do Not Remain Indifferent Like many of our middle school youth, I was in 9th grade when I was introduced to the Holocaust. My favorite teacher of all time, Frank Toler, pushed me to not only learn about the Holocaust, but also teach. He […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Kol Nidre 5777 Sermon – A Radically Inspired Life
Kol Nidre 5777 October 11, 2016 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen A Radically Inspired Life Many of us are familiar with Caring Bridge. If you’re not, it’s a website that allows for personal health story journals. It’s a place where, instead of having to tell the story of an illness or health issue over and over […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Rosh Hashanah Morning 5777 Sermon – What Do You See? The Lenses of Our Lives
Rosh Hashanah 5777 October 3, 2016 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen What Do You See? The Lenses of Our Lives I have discovered the blessings of reading glasses! One day I was struggling to read something and I tried on a pair of reading glasses. It was an “I am healed!” moment! Really!?!? Why didn’t I […]
Rabbi Cohen’s Erev Rosh Hashanah 5777 Sermon – Are We Listening?
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5777 October 2, 2016 Rabbi Heidi M. Cohen Are We Listening? This past fall I took a class on Mindfulness. It seems to be a buzzword right now, mindfulness, and I thought, why not, I could handle being a little more mindful! Little did I know that this class was going to […]
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