Building families through the ages
Part of a yearlong series about builders and building the Jewish future. The Torah portion Chayyei Sarah may be called “the life of Sarah,” but it’s really about her family […]
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Building outward at last: sex, gender, and the toppling of Jewish Jenga
Part of a yearlong series about builders and building the Jewish future. As a young girl in Orthodox Jewish elementary school, I vividly remember an educational poster in my classrooms. […]
Four Building Lessons in Avram’s Lech Lecha Call
Part of a yearlong series about building and builders inspired by the Torah cycle. Building something demands a leap of faith. Proto-ancestor Avram shows us the kind of leap, and […]
Denominational and spiritual diversity
Bayit’s core group of founding Builders is denominationally and spiritually diverse — and that was a conscious choice on our part. Spiritual diversity matters to us. Jewish life is made […]
Noah’s Ark: A Failed Ally-Ship
Part of a yearlong series about building and builders inspired by the Torah cycle. “Justice can never be about just us.” Noah, therefore, certainly wasn’t a just person – […]
All of us, taking up our tools together
The founding Builders at Bayit include both laypeople and clergy. We are rabbis and laypeople, lawyers and educators, fundraisers and administrators, rooted both inside and outside the denominations. I am a […]
First Build: Seven Foundation Principles for Spiritual Builders
Part of a yearlong series about building and builders inspired by the Torah cycle. We’re all stardust, re-mixed chemical elements forged in some distant supernova. We’re all broken shards, fallen […]
Keystone Values for Building the Jewish Future
בַּסֻּכֹּת תֵּשְׁבוּ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כָּל־הָאֶזְרָח בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשְׁבוּ בַּסֻּכֹּת. “For seven days, you will dwell in booths: All the citizens of Israel will dwell in booths.” (Leviticus 23:42) Master Builders who […]
Isaiah 58 + Sounds of Silence
From Rabbi David Markus comes Isaiah 58 (from the haftarah reading that tradition assigns to Yom Kippur morning) interlaced with lyrics from Simon & Garfunkel, set to haftarah trope. Released […]
Master Builders: Shaping the Call to Build
Today’s Judaism is a dwelling with many rooms, built over centuries by framers who adapted, remodeled and occasionally rebuilt anew what came before. Among today’s builders of Judaism, we – meaning […]