You Are Not Getting a Blank Page This Year (Good News, Actually) - Rabbi Scott Gellman

Recorded live on Sept. 4, 2026

Rabbi Gellman scrolled to the bottom of his own version history and did not like the guy he found down there. In this sermon for the last Shabbat of 5786, he makes a case that will annoy anyone hoping to walk into Rosh Hashanah as a brand new person: you don't get a fresh scroll. Also inside — the commandment almost nobody knows is the very last one in the Torah, the reason a single crooked letter can invalidate a year of a scribe's work, and the medieval rabbi who quietly rewrote a mitzvah because he was paying attention to how people actually live. Turns out the Reform argument has been sitting in a fourteenth-century footnote this whole time.