Is Someone Doing Your Thinking For You? | Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for Kol Nidrei 2026

In this Kol Nidrei sermon, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath asks a deeply uncomfortable question: Who is doing your thinking for you? We live in an age overflowing with information but increasingly short on reflection. Algorithms, social media, political tribes, influencers, institutions, AI—and even our own wounds—can quietly hand us conclusions that we eventually mistake for our own beliefs. Beginning with Abraham smashing the idols of his father’s shop, Rabbi Bernath traces a distinctly Jewish ...