Rabbi Yoshi shares his Yom Kippur Yizkor sermon which honors the memory of his mother, Hermene Davis Zweiback, who died 25 years ago. A few weeks before the Jewish New Year while cleaning up around the house, Rabbi Yoshi came across the gratitude journal his mom kept in the last month of her life. The sermon is a reflection on the lessons it contains.
While it’s a very personal remembrance, it’s also universal — it’s about the people who are dear to each of us and the meaning their lives give to ours.
The outro music of this episode is a setting of the Sim Shalom prayer that Rabbi Yoshi composed in his mother’s memory twenty-four years ago. You can listen to it wherever you stream your music.