Holy Ashes: Designs for Spiritual Flow
Part of a yearlong series of Torah wisdom on spiritual building and builders. How well does a spiritual practice or spiritual community “work”? One answer from this week’s Torah portion […]
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#VisualTorah Book of Esther from Steve Silbert
From builder Steve Silbert comes this piece of Visual Torah: a one-page version of the Book of Esther, which will be read later this week at Purim! One of the […]
Announcing Beside Still Waters!
Now available! Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal New from Ben Yehuda Press and Bayit $18 You can find the Table of Contents, the introduction, and assorted other excerpts via […]
Build for Loving Balance: Fire and Water, Justice and Repair
Part of a yearlong series on Torah’s wisdom about building and builders in Jewish spiritual life. This week’s Torah portion (Vayikra) is rich with sacrificial details. Animal body parts, kidneys […]
Creating a Spiritual Home
Part of a yearlong Torah series about building and builders in Jewish spiritual life. “A house is just a box where you keep your stuff.” A contractor tossed this comment […]
People of the Building Fund: Four Paths Through the “Edifice Complex”
Part of a yearlong Torah series about building and builders in Jewish spiritual life. “Don’t give to the Building Fund,” said no synagogue leader ever. Most community leaders would love […]
The Builder’s Holy Sledgehammer: Sometimes It Must Break
Part of a yearlong series on Torah’s wisdom about building and builders in Jewish spiritual life. Spiritual builders sometimes so deeply invest in their call to build that they […]
Creating Sacred Spaces
Reprinted from The Times of Israel. As we read these parshiyot (Torah portions) about creating a mishkan, a sacred space for God, it’s a fair question to ask what the […]
Building Sacred Spaces With (and For) G-d
Part of a yearlong series on Torah’s wisdom about building and builders in Jewish spiritual life. Jewish tradition teaches that G-d is constantly recreating this world, building something out of […]
Ashrei. Happiness. Ashrei.
By Steve Silbert.