A sermon by Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses on Emor.
How do we deal with our own perfectionism and how do we move from that perfectionism, which gets in the way of living life fully, to a place of compassion? In Emor, the Biblical portion of the week, God demands perfection, prohibiting a blemished priest from approaching the divine altar. How do we wrestle with a God who on one hand can be cruelly perfectionist and on the other holds close those who are broken? How do we ourselves move to bowling with a God who is compassionate?
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Dianne was the first woman from the Syrian Jewish community to be ordained as a Rabbi. She graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1995, where she was awarded several fellowships and a prize for academic excellence. Since that time she has served as an educator, scholar-in-residence, and administrator for multiple organizations in the Jewish world, including CLAL, the Bronfman Youth Fellowship, The Curriculum Initiative and UJA Federation. In 2007 she was named one of fifty top rabbis by the Washington Post online. Besides leading education efforts at Romemu she currently co-teaches the Arts Beit Midrash at the Skirball Institute with Tobi Kahn, teaches courses at UJA Federation a nd writes and speaks regularly on Torah, Jewish values and family life, Jewish ethnicity and Judaism and disabilities. Rabbi Dianne and her journalist husband Larry live on the upper west side of Manhattan and have three children.
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