Rabbi Glick's Sermons
01/05/2022 05:12:39 PM
[RABBI GLICK] Rosh Hashanah Message
09/15/2023 10:50:05 AM
We sit on the cusp of a new year. Our yontiv season is serious and awe-filled, but also joyous and inspiring (see how the cantor and IRead more...
[RABBI GLICK] Message about Israel and Israeli MK to address the congregation during YK
09/07/2023 12:50:59 PM
Earlier this year I sent a message to the congregation noting my intense alarm - as a life-long Zionist and defender of Israel, as welRead more...
[RABBI GLICK PURIM] Get the word out about Rapper Ari Lesser on Sunday at 11am!
03/10/2022 02:51:34 PM
Tell your friends and family. Tickets are selling out!
Come and hear Jewish rapping sensation Ari Lesser after our Purim CarRead more...
[RABBI GLICK PURIM] Get the word out about Rapper Ari Lesser on Sunday at 11am!
03/10/2022 02:44:08 PM
Tell your friends and family. Tickets are selling out!
Come and hear Jewish rapping sensation Ari Lesser after our Purim CarRead more...
[RABBI GLICK PURIM] Rapper Ari Lesser Sunday 3/13 at 11 am
03/06/2022 08:31:03 AM
This Purim, we are absolutely delighted to bring to you Jewish rapping sensation Ari Lesser for an IN PERSON concert on Sunday, March 1Read more...
[RABBI GLICK] The Ukraine Crisis
03/02/2022 09:09:48 PM
We are watching the news from the Ukraine with cautious optimism but also with worry. We marvel at the heroism of the Ukrainians and Read more...
[RABBI GLICK PURIM] Persian Extravaganza Megillah Reading Wednesday, March 16th, 6 pm
03/02/2022 08:07:48 AM
Come celebrate Purim this year
IN PERSON!
And enjoy a megillah reading like no other. We are decorating Gottlieb Hall to look like a PeRead more...
[MEAL TRAIN] Help out the Colborgs with their new baby!
02/28/2022 08:10:33 AM
[RABBI GLICK] Message about Ukraine
02/25/2022 12:40:39 PM
Many of us are still in shock at Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine in the past 24 hours. We fear for the Ukrainian people and for thRead more...
2020 Yom Kippur Sermon (5781)
09/28/2020 12:00:31 AM
Rabbi Glick's Yom Kippur Sermon
Read more...Rosh Hashanah Day 2, 2020
09/20/2020 12:00:06 AM
Rabbi Glick's Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sermon
Read more...Rosh Hashanah, Day 1 2020
09/19/2020 12:00:36 AM
Rabbi Glick's Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon
Read more...2020 May Shabbat Sermon
05/13/2020 06:36:39 PM
One of the strangest occurrences that happened when this whole situation with the virus began was – the day the stay-at-home order was announced, my wrist watch stopped and ran out of battery. Of course… No way to get to the store.
But how apt.
Time stopped.
For the past month and a half, we have been living...Read more...
2019 Rosh Hashanah Day Sermon
10/01/2019 12:00:00 AM
Good Yontif. Good Yontif.
One of my favorite stories about Albert Einstein was about how he found inspiration.
Einstein was an unusual person. As a youth, he was a mediocre student. In college, instead of attending class, he would focus on playing his beloved violin and performing concerts...Read more...
2019 Rosh Hashanah (5780)
09/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
Yehezkel Taub was born into a great Polish Hassidic dynasty. They could trace their roots to the early masters.
They were related to the Modzits Hassidim, beloved for their music. They composed the ani maamim we...Read more...
2019 Erev Rosh Hashanah
09/29/2019 12:00:00 AM
Good Yontif.
Va yelekh Avram kasher diber Adonai.
And Abraham went forth as Adonai had said.
Va’ yaavor Avram baaretz.
And Abraham passed through the land.
After I moved to the...Read more...
2019 Nirzavim
09/28/2019 04:23:13 PM
A day before Rosh Hashannah…
We know what our work is:
Teshuvah
Repentance
Return
As Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach sang, return again, return to the land of your soul, return to who you are to what you are to where you are born and reborn again.
As our parashah says:
When you take it all to heart and you return to the Lord your God and you and children heed his command with all your heart and...Read more...
2019 Ki Tavo
09/21/2019 03:49:39 PM
“A land that eats its inhabitant or a land flowing with milk and honey?”
Shabbat shalom
Ki Tavo el Haaretz. When you come to the land.
The land of Israel is both a physical location and a spiritual location.
Our Torah is always trying to get there. It always concludes before we get there, to begin again. That makes us like Moses, standing on top of the mountain looking out yearning to get...Read more...
2019 Ki Tetze
09/14/2019 04:15:00 PM
Shabbat shalom.
As many of you know, the Israeli elections are in just a few days.
There was a story in the Israeli media last week—of an Israeli television program, Channel 13, report on the pre-army hesder yeshivot. That featured the recorded comments of a leading Rabbi speaking to his students, speaking about how they fear the wicked secular society, how corrupt their values were, and to even be ready to go against the...Read more...
2019 Ekev
08/24/2019 12:00:00 AM
Shabbat shalom. Mary McNeal was an orthopedic surgeon. While on holiday in South America, she had a kayaking accident. Her kayak was pinned under the water and she was trapped. Despite great effort by her companion, she couldn’t be rescued and she was declared dead.
This is where she had the beginning of an...Read more...
2019 Re'eh
08/19/2019 02:50:49 PM
The Talmud tells us that at every moment there is a heavenly voice ringing out, crying: you can go this way or you can go that way. Choose ...
This is a very deep teaching, perhaps the key to all of life.
We pick the timber of our existence, the pattern of our life.
In each and every situation, no matter what it is, we have a...Read more...
10/02/2018 10:18:50 PM
My name is Monica Garcia Norlander. My Hebrew name is Chaya Ora, which means Life and Light. I am proud to stand here today as an alumna of the West Suburban Temple Har Zion class titled, “Introduction to Judaism.” In the class, I learned a solid foundation of Jewish knowledge, I joined a community of other learners, I cemented my decision to raise a child with Jewish values, and I grew on my personal journey.
In...Read more...
2018 Yom Kippur Kol Nidre Sermon
09/24/2018 12:00:00 AM
Good Yontiv.
Good evening.
Gmar Tov – a good seal after the fast.
Our holiest night of the year begins as we remove all of the Sifrei Torah from our ark, in an...Read more...
2017 Noach
10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM
Shabbat Noach 5778 – ‘The Human Gift for Unity’
Hineh ma tovu u manim shevet achim gam yachad
How good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters sit together in...Read more...
2017 Yom Kippur (5778)
09/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
Good Yontif, Shanah Tovah,
Ma Anu, Umeh’Chayenu
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2017 Kol Nidre Sermon 5778
09/29/2017 12:00:00 AM
Good Yontif,
I was once at La Guardia airport in New York, and there was a man walking from person to...Read more...
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