Sermon Seminars

CBR Sermon Seminar with Rabbi JJ Schacter – June 6, 2018

Session #1 Audio
Session #2 Audio

Texts:

The High Holiday Sermon

Ishmael on the Border

Sunflower

CBR Sermon Seminar with Rabbi Shai Held – September 14, 2017

Audio

CBR Sermon Seminar with Rabbi Gary A. Glickstein – August 28, 2017

Session #1 Audio
Session #2 Audio
Text

These texts can be used as kavanot or introductions to the prayers. The last text is a substitute version of Eleh Azkarah.  Many thanks to Rabbis Shoshanah Conover, David Russo and Marc Rudolph for compiling them:
Text Text Text Yamim-Noahim-5778-RH

CBR Sermon Seminar with Rabbi Professor Nehemiah Polen – August 24, 2016

Session #1 Audio
Session #2 Audio
Rabbi Professor Nehemiah Polen Text
Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein Text 1Text 2Text 3

CBR Sermon Seminar with Rabbi Professor Eliezer Diamond – August 20, 2015

Session #1 “Grappling with the Theological Challenges of the Rosh Hashanah Service” Audio
Session #2 “Words as Acts: Reflections on Vidui and Kol Nidre” Audio
Text Text Text

CBR Sermon Seminar with Reb Mimi Feigelson  – August 27, 2014

Session #1 The Moment God Lost God’s Vision: Leadership and Mastery in the 21st Century Audio Text
Session #2 T’shuva: Compartmentalization or Gestalt? Audio Text 

Sermon Seminar/Rabbinic Kallah with Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz ( bio ), June 5, 2013

Session 1: audiotext
Session 2: audiotext

Chicago Board of Rabbis Sermon Seminar, August 22, 2012

Rabbi Ed Feinstein: ( outline here, texts here and here)
First session: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Second session: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Click here to go to embedded versions (all videos on one page)
– or – Hear just the audio: Part 1Part 2
Rabbi Yehiel Poupko: AudioText

Chicago Board of Rabbis Sermon Seminar, August 31, 2011

Rabbi Stephen Pearce:
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Any text that Rabbi Pearce refers to can be found in this sermon packet

Rabbi Victor Weissberg remembering our colleague Rabbi Fred Schwartz Z”L; and Rabbi Carl Wolkin presenting Rabbi Ellen Dreyfus with the Rabbi Mordecai Simon Memorial Award: 
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Video of Rabbi Ellen Dreyfus receiving the Rabbi Mordecai Simon Memorial Award can be found here

Sermon Seminar and Kallah, June 9, 2010

Rabbi Shmuel Goldin

Rabbi Goldin has served as spiritual leader of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey, since 1984.  He is vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America and the author of two books “Unlocking the Torah Text.” For more information on Rabbi Goldin click  here .

WS310080.mp3 –  text here  on Rosh Hashana
WS310081.mp3 –  text here  on Yom Kippur

Sermon Seminar, August 19, 2009

Rabbi Dr. Gordon Tucker from our annual Rabbi’s Sermon Seminar

WS310049.mp3 – Text here
WS310051.mp3 – Text here

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Sermon Seminar, September 3, 2008

Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson from the annual CBR Sermon Seminar.

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Please note that the text for the second session was an extract from Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s  The Lonely Man of Faith.  You can link to it here. http://www.traditiononline.org/news/article.cfm?id=105067 .

For copies of the text, please click here.