About

Bayit: Your Jewish Home is a collaborative and spiritually potent innovation start-up, helping individuals and communities build a radically inclusive and enlivening Judaism for all ages and stages. Bayit aims to develop and distribute tools to build a continually renewing Judaism that revitalizes body, mind, heart and spirit.

For now, we’re sheltered under the umbrella of The Jewish Studio.

This website is under construction, as Bayit writ large is under construction, so please check back often to see what’s new.

The Call to Build

We aim to build a new sense of how to be “at home” in Jewish life. It must centrally value experience to animate and personalize big ideas of Judaism (Torah, prayer, social justice, identity) in ways less loosely bound to history’s titles, names, structures and systems. It must be pragmatic: it must ask what… Continue reading The Call to Build

Keystone Projects

Our initial projects include publishing, ritual resources, an innovation pilot program, and a blog focusing on innovation that works. There are other projects in the blueprints phase, so stay tuned for updates on those! Meanwhile, here’s a bit more about the projects with which we’re beginning our work: Innovation Pilot. Our Innovation Pilot Program will… Continue reading Keystone Projects

Beside Still Waters

Pre-order Beside Still Waters now! Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal is a book for mourners, for those who will someday become mourners, and for those anticipating their own journey out of this life. It offers liturgy both classical and contemporary for different stages along the mourner’s path, from prayers for healing (even… Continue reading Beside Still Waters