The Power of Small Things - Day 2

Rosh Hashanah 5786-2025 - Day 2

A Rosh Hashanah sermon that touches the heart and reawakens the Jewish soul

What if everything we’ve been taught about power is wrong?

We think the world changes through force, through fame, through headlines.

But this sermon shows something deeper—something more true:

It’s the quiet things that shift the world.

• A breeze in the Rockies that splits a continent in two
  • A boy watching a kettle lid dance
  • An old road to Shiloh and a father who chose a different path
  • A junior diplomat who stared down Eichmann and saved 50,000 lives

This sermon is a wake-up call.

It tells your community:
You are not powerless.
You are not small.
You are the breeze.
You are the nudge that changes a life.
You are the whisper of God in someone’s moment of doubt.

And the beauty? You don’t even have to know it.
Most of the time, you won’t.
But heaven knows.
And a soul shifts. And a nation remembers.

Because you smiled.
Because you spoke.
Because you did a mitzvah.

This sermon lifts your community out of the overwhelm.
It gives them back their courage.
It puts destiny back in their hands.

And when the shofar sounds—this year—
They’ll hear it not as an echo of the past.
But as a call to become the breeze that shifts the future.
Even if no one sees them coming.