Rabbi Cosgrove: Of Silver Platters and Mirrors (Yom Kippur, 2025)
Rabbi Cosgrove Sermons
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Can we support Israel’s legitimate self-defense and also have empathy for the suffering of Gaza? Rabbi Cosgrove teaches that the tension between concern for self and concern for the other defines Jewish identity and that self-examination together with critique of the other is the essence of Yom Kippur.
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