Given that our lives can be upended in an instant, Rabbi Cosgrove exhorts us to make every day count, taking on personal agency through teshuvah/repentance, tefillah/spiritual living, and tzedakah/righteous giving.
Rabbi Cosgrove, I have made it my true mission in life to listen to all your sermons at least ten times each!!! Listening to you gives me peace and calm, the kind of which is not possible with any sort of meditation or yoga practices 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❣️❣️❣️. Thank you and Cantor Schwartz! God bless you and your loved ones🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Truly, TRULY AMAZING!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻thank you, Rabbi Cosgrove, from Los Angeles! I found you by accident last year during the lock downs, when my temple was closed. I thank the lock downs because I found you.
RABBI ELLIOT COSGROVE IS SUCH AN INSIGHTFUL MAN OF GOD - AND YET HE ALWAYS ADDS THE JOY AND PURPOSE OF ALL AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GOODNESS OF GOD AND GODS WONDERFUL GRACE. HE ALWAYS TALK WITH KINDNESS AND SINCERITY, THE TONE OF HIS VOICE CONFIRMS HIS DEEP CARE MAY HE BE BLESSED BEYOND HIS IMAGINATION.
How does one regain his Jewish faith in G-d? My wife of 40 years left me as you say with a blink of an eye. At the funeral I screamed Why G-d. For two years I was lost until I found your sermons and your synagogue. To this I owe you a life now being fulfilled.
the blink of an eye: when the jesus was drawn in lightning twenty years ago, there was time to digest that it was his coming. there was word on angels. also, there was on left behind, and knowing you was, in it seemed half a year on, maybe two or three some version. that might have been more recently.
I find it a wonderful, inspiring message. I think the rabbi, however, misses a key point. The expectation of our redemption preannounces a moment when the Messiah will bring closure to our current unending, unsettling chaos. We live on the expectation of a happy ending. Otherwise, we are not better than those who deny the existence of the Eternal One, BH. Don't you think?
