I just got home from services...they were pretty good until the rabbi started the sermon. He went on for 25 minutes with every cliche and fortune cookie bit of self rightous advice you can imagine. We're talking all the highlights: Live life to its fullest. Quit watching reality TV, get off the couch, and interact with your family, life doesn't wait to end when you're finished so do something, if we could live life backwards etc, and finally, we can best measure life in love...It was excruciating.
Why oh why, does he think that just because he has his 2nd largest adudience of the year, we want to hear the self-rightous goblty goop that fills the "self-help" section of barnes and noble? Is this just my rabbi? Or are all clergymen/women like this?
I won't be going back to his service tomorrow...
