A selection of Cantor Broekhuysen’s sermons

“Finding Power in Speech and Silence” delivered at Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley on the 2nd morning of Rosh HaShanah 5786 (2025)

“Fear narrows our options; grief helps us choose life” delivered at Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley on the 2nd morning of Rosh HaShanah 5785 (2024)

“Immersing, emerging and coming home” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on the morning of Yom Kippur 5783 (2022)

“Leaving Loneliness, Coming into Community” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on Kol Nidre 5783 (2022)

“Welcome” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on the first morning of Rosh HaShanah 5783 (2022)

“Shabbat shabbaton and sh’mitah: rescuing life in a burning world” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on the 1st day of Rosh HaShanah 5782 (2021)

“Pause, don’t freeze” delivered via Zoom at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on  Yom Kippur morning 5781 (2020)

“Who lives, who dies, who acts on your story?” delivered via Zoom at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on the 1st day of Rosh HaShanah 5781 (2020)

“We carry our people in our bones,” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on February 8th, 2020

“Practicing failure, cultivating resilience,” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on Yom Kippur morning 5780 (2019)

“Lifting our prayers up off the page,” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on Kol Nidrei 5780 (2019)

“Sh’mita: The Year of Letting Go”: d’var on Parashat B’chukkotai, delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on June 1st, 2019

“Our coming together tonight is an act of peace”: d’var for Peace Shabbat six days after the Pittsburgh massacre at Tree of Life synagogue, delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA on November 2nd, 2018

“The Geir Without and Within,” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, 5779 (2018)

“Ki Hinei Kachomeir: desiring our yeitzer” delivered at Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill, MA, on Kol Nidrei, 5779 (2018)

D’var on Parashat Acharei Mot, written for a homiletics course at Hebrew College taught by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld in 2014