Rabbi Hannah’s Divrei Torah

2016

• Parshat Chukat
• The Comfort of Commandments:  We’ve Got This
• Troubling Torah, Different Modes of Engagement
• Kohelet on Sukkot: A Voice of Joy for Realists and for Mouth-Breathers
• Welcoming Strangers, Welcoming Angels: Hospitality as God’s Answer to Oppressive Structure
• This Is How We Drash

2017

• The Call : A Message for Inauguration Shabbat
• The Way God Acts : Modes of Prophecy, Bamidbar and Today
• Netzach sheb’Gevurah
• Behar and Bechukotai
• Building Confidence with Friends, Fringes, and Faith
• Staying Vigilant : Living in the Tradition of B’nai Gad and B’nai Re’uven
• Compassion and Comfort : Searching for Hope after the Charlottesville Rally
• Crossing Without Moshe : Reminding Ourselves of God
• Remarks for Installation
• Caring and Taking Care : Removing the Obstacles that Endanger us All
• Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel. How Can We Show Our Commitment to Peace?

2018

• Mercy, Justice and Jewish Priorities

• What Do We Have to Offer?

• Thunder and Lighting and a Thick Cloud : You Know it’s Torah when It Makes You Quake

• Pride Everlasting Justice and Joy for Age after Age

• Shabbat Chazon: A Shabbat of Mindfulness and Responsibility

• It’s Not Enough to Judge with Justice: Looking Within with Reish Lakish

• Shabbat Chazon: A Shabbat of Mindfulness and Responsibility

• Blessing our Fellows Who Must Cross Over: A Sermon for National Refugee Shabbat

• A Discussion of Thanksgiving for Kvetchers and Wrestlers Like Me

• Blessings in the Face of Chamas: Learning from Yaakov and Reacting to Hate

2019

• Unable to March in Step Together
• Fancy Details: Making Beauty is Making Space for God
• The Blasphemer
• Productive Chutzpah: Like Sovereignty Without a Crown
• Guarding Shabbat: Giving Us a Fighting Chance
• Kohelet and Camp Shabbat
• Sustaining Power: Survivors and Maccabees

2020

• When Heroes Let Us Down
• Heroes and Superheros in a Pandemic
• Liberating and Loving: Celebrating Juneteenth and Pride
• Everyone is Mourning
• Gender and Genesis:  Honoring God’s Beautiful Spectrum of Creation