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Yizkor: The Trojan Horse of Sin
Every rabbi needs a Yom Kippur sermon that moves people to tears, stays with them long after they’ve left shul, and also inspires them to take a mitzvah into the year ahead.
This Yizkor sermon does exactly that.
It begins with laughter — a joke that disarms — and then pivots to a metaphor every congregant will recognize and never forget: sin as a Trojan horse. Not fire and brimstone, but the quiet compromises that slip inside our lives disguised as pleasure. Out march the soldiers: habit that enslaves, guilt that poisons, and the harm that ripples out to the people we love most.
But this is not a sermon about despair. It’s a sermon about hope.
Adam hiding in the Garden, children in a monastery whispering words they were told to forget, a swamp transformed into Venice, the science of a diving board, even our late-night scrolling like raccoons at a vending machine — these images pull the listener from brokenness to rebirth.
And it closes with Yizkor itself, turning memory into the raw material of love, forgiveness, and new beginnings.
What you’ll get is a Yom Kippur message that is dramatic, relatable, and unforgettable.
A sermon that begins with a smile, pierces the heart, and leaves your community with the deepest truth of Yom Kippur:
that no matter how far we’ve fallen, we are not defined by the fall.
We are defined by the return. Not by the sin, but by the soul.
