Rabbi David J. Meyer

Rabbi David J. Meyer

Rabbi David J. Meyer was called to the pulpit of Temple Emanu-El, Marblehead in the fall of 1992. Ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1986, Rabbi Meyer served for six years as the Associate Rabbi of the historic Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, California. Well-known in the field of contemporary Jewish folk music, he spent more than a decade as Music Director at the American Jewish University’s Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Southern California. In addition to his pulpit and pastoral duties, Rabbi Meyer is active in a wide variety of community activities and organizations on Boston's North Shore. He is a Past-President of the North Shore Rabbinical and Cantorial Association, and also of the Marblehead Ministerial Association. In addition, Rabbi Meyer has served as a member of the Essex County Anti-Crime Council, on the Board of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, and of Epstein Hillel Academy, and was among the founders of the MarbleheadCares Coalition

What the Torah Teaches Us About Gender Fluidity and Transgender Justice

Rabbi David J. Meyer

This post is adapted from Rabbi Meyer's Rosh HaShanah 5779 morning sermon. 

For our Israelite ancestors, the most important festival of the year was Sukkot, and the most widely practiced ritual was the bringing of the first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem