Rabbi Zauzmer: The Buried Bowtie (Yom Kippur, 2026)
High Holiday Sermons
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13m
In the year of Leonard Cohen's tenth yahrzeit, Rabbi Zauzmer honors him not only as the singer-songwriter we all know, but as an inventor of Jewish ritual. His powerful story is a reminder that ritual is how we make holy that which we cannot control.
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