About once every 2 or 3 years, one of my local rabbinic colleagues asks me to be rent-a-rabbi on Shabbat morning when he or she is otherwise engaged. Here’s my most recent:

“This is the saga of Ytzkhak ben Avraham. Avraham sired Yitzhak.” So begins our Torah for this Shabbat.

Now when I was a student at the Hebrew Union College many moons ago, one of the courses we were required to take was something called Homiletics. Do you know voss maint dos Homiletics? (more…)