Rabbi Cosgrove: Returning Home (Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2026)
Rabbi Cosgrove Sermons
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16m
What does it mean to come home to ourselves — and to reckon with the patterns, wounds, and inheritances that have shaped us? Rabbi Cosgrove reflects on teshuvah as the work of return: naming what we carry, changing what we can, and refusing to let the past determine the future.
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