A selection of Cantor Broekhuysen’s sermons

“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