Rabbi Cosgrove: Taking Agency (Kol Nidrei, 2026)
High Holiday Sermons
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27m
What does it mean to take responsibility for our lives? From Genesis to September 11 to the confessions of Yom Kippur, Rabbi Cosgrove explores Judaism’s insistence that grievance never absolves us of agency, challenging us to stop asking who is to blame and start asking, What is mine to do?
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