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Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber

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We are not alone: Erev Rosh Hashanah [5786] GKW Serm 1

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My sermon from Erev Rosh Hashanah can be read or downloaded below:

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As usual, this sermon represents my own views and does not purport to incriminate anyone else.

Comments are welcome at the bottom of the page. Please note that they are premoderated and anything abusive simply won’t be published.

Remember that all of my sermons, handouts and so on can be found here.

Shanah tovah!

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Double dactyls: Nitzavim

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Lo ba-shamayim-ba,
Present and future Jews,
Men, women, children, all
Stand here this day.

Now you must make a choice
Eschatological:
Life (be obedient), or
Death (go astray).

You can play too by posting in the comments! A reminder of the rules of the “dismally difficult” double dactyl:

  1. There must be eight lines.
  2. Lines 1-3 and 5-7 must each consist of a pair of dactyls (that is, dum-der-der dum-der-der).
  3. Lines 4 and 8 must be choriambs (that is, dum-der-der-dum).
  4. Lines 4 and 8 must rhyme.
  5. Line 1 must be nonsense.
  6. Line 2 must be the subject of the poem, ideally a name that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘Laurence Olivier’).
  7. Line 6 must be a single word that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘cardiovascular’).

And my own past entries can be found here.