How Your Rabbi Writes A Sermon |
It may seem like the High Holidays are a lifetime away, but for your Rabbi, the prep for sermon writing starts now! But how does a Rabbi go about writing these sermons? What is their process? How do they constantly crank out this content again and again and again?
America’s Rebbitzman is about to peel back the parchment and expose the secrets the Rabbis have used for ages to create their High Holy Day sermon. Buckle up, things are about to get weird!
While the exact dates of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur change from year to year, they generally fall between early September and mid-October. This means that every May, your Rabbi will say the following sentence:
“This year, I will get all my High Holiday sermons done by July, and then I will be able to just edit or update them closer to the date to reflect any changes in the world.”
Once this plan is put into your Rabbi’s mind, they will immediately abandon it and never speak of it again, until the following May.
Expert warning: If you ever ask your Rabbi, a month prior to Rosh Hashanah, “I thought you started writing this in May,” you will immediately have to sleep on the couch…erm, I mean, be assigned Hagbah on Simchat Torah for your weak arm.
The last week of August, your rabbi will come up with exactly 135 ideas for the 5 sermons they have to give (depending on how........