High Holy Days – Eitz Chaim Congregation

For Yom Kippur Day 2025, Rabbi Schiller looks at Isaiah 6 and the theme of encountering the reality of God, which is especially His holiness, as an essential prerequisite to a life-transforming relationship with Messiah.

For Erev Yom Kippur, Rabbi Schiller challenges us to define our relationship with Y’Shua, and see if it is one of a casual admirer or a committed follower.

For Rosh Hashanah Day 2025, when the books of God’s Judgment are opened, Rabbi Schiller looks at the difficult passage about sinning against the Holy Spirit, and how resisting the Spirit prevents one from repenting, and how refusing to repent results in one’s sins not being forgiven.

For Erev Rosh Hashanah 2025, Rabbi Schiller looks at the Sermon on the Mount and the theme of coming to the end of yourself to truly find and follow Y’Shua the Messiah.

For Yom Kippur Day, Rabbi Schiller looks at the theme of the idols of our heart, our idolatry, as the ultimate sin behind the sin. We don’t commit outward sin unless we’ve first created an idol in our heart that competes with the LORD as King of our heart!

For Erev Yom Kippur 2024, Rabbi Schiller looks at Psalm 51, the steps of Repentance, including seeing your sin; confessing your sin; mourning your sin; hating your sin; and turning from your sin, the ultimate motivation of which is abiding in the joy of our salvation in Messiah Y’Shua

For Rosh Hashanah Day, Rabbi Schiller looks at the Parable of the 2 debtors, Simon the Pharisee and the Immoral Woman, in Luke 7, where the immoral woman ends up with her sins forgiven, and not Simon, as she acknowledges the depths of her sin and the costliness of her salvation, and gives all to […]

For Erev Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Schiller looks at the Parable of the 2 sons and the Parable of the Vineyard in Mth 21, focusing on themes of repentance, that we’re tenants, not owners, in God’s vineyard, and that we’re in need of radical grace.

For Yom Kippur Day, Rabbi Schiller looks at the theme of holiness, how we should act as the Temple of God, how to overcome backsliding, how to return to our first love, and how to walk in the fear of the LORD.

For Erev Yom Kippur, Rabbi Schiller looks at Gen 3 and our sin nature, which results in self-centeredness, lack of trust in God, and destroyed relationships. Just as Satan deceived us through the Tree and brought death to Adam and his seed, Y’Shua, the 2nd Adam, redeems us through another Tree and brings life to […]

For Shabbat T’Shuvah, Rabbi Schiller looks at the account of how Pinchas stopped sin in the camp in Num 25, and how we are called to die to sin, die to self, and die to the ways of this world, if we are to serve the LORD.

For Rosh Hashanah Day, where we welcome King Messiah’s Presence into our midst, Rabbi Schiller looks at the account of the bringing of the Ark of God into Jerusalem, and how the Ark both shows us the chasm between us and God, with the death of Uzzah, but also the Provision of the Gospel, with […]

For Yom Kippur Day, Rabbi Schiller looks at Forgiveness, whereby true biblical forgiveness entails no longer withholding attention, affection, or honor from someone who has wronged you.

For Erev Yom Kippur, Rabbi Schiller looks at the topic of sin as slavery and addiction, which we can overcome only by tasting and seeing that the LORD is good – personal interaction and encounter with Y’Shua that replaces the fire of sinful habits burning in your heart.

For Shabbat T’Shuvah (Sabbath of Repentance), Rabbi Schiller revisits the Parable of the Prodigal Son, focusing on the self-righteousness, spiritual pride and religious spirit of the Older Brother, with a warning to parents not to overlook spiritual issues in the so-called easy, compliant child who outwardly follows all the rules and is obedient, but inwardly […]

For Rosh Hashana Day 2022, Rabbi Schiller focuses on worshipping King Messiah, as seen in Rev 4 & 5, looking at our need for worship, ways to worship, and Yeshua as the focus of our worship.

For Erev Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Schiller looks at the Coming Kingdom and the Return of the King, and how King Messiah’s reign is described in Rev 21 & 22, as the basis for our Hope in times of Tribulation.

For Yom Kippur Day, Rabbi Schiller looks at the story of Joseph to glean principles of forgiveness and its link to redemption. He also debunks myths, like your wrongdoer needs to first ask for forgiveness, you need to forget, that forgiveness equals reconciliation, or that forgiveness automatically makes everything better.

For Erev Yom Kippur, Rabbi Schiller looks at the theme of how All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, but how in Y’Shua we have atonement, through His blood, which manifest itself in regeneration, so that we become new creations in Messiah, with new hearts and new spirits, resulting in a […]

For Rosh Hashanah Day, Rabbi Schiller looks at the theme of Yom Ha Din / Judgment Day, and the paradox that we can’t live as humanity without a Judgment Day, but yet we can’t individually survive the Judgment, and how Y’Shua resolves this paradox by becoming our Judgment Day.

For the Erev Rosh Hashanah 2020 service, Rabbi Schiller looks at the core of the Gospel, contrasting the narrow and the broad way, and what it means to know Y’Shua and lay down your life for Him, examining how Salvation is possible because, through the Cross, the Father is satisfied and the Son is sacrificed.