New Jonah – With Visual Mahzor Art
This new rendering of Jonah for 5785 features a renewed telling of the story illuminated by art from Bayit’s Visual Mahzor, our new volume of artwork inspired by the Torah […]
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A New Prayer/Poem for Yizkor: Together
This is a prayer I wrote on the morning of Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s funeral. Jewish tradition does not have one set idea about what happens after death, so the first part […]
Tisha b’Av 5784 / 2024: How?!
On Tisha b’Av we confront the world’s brokenness, and our own. In many ways, 5784 has felt like a whole year of Tisha b’Av. These words are some of our hearts’ cries this […]
Amidah Offering: This Day
The fourth blessing in the Shabbat Amidah speaks about the “holiness of this day.” Is Shabbat’s holiness unique, is it innate, what role do we play in it, how does […]
This Broken Matzah: Pesach 2024
How do we celebrate Pesach in a year like this one? Everything about the seder lands differently after the last six months. This offering emerges out of our grief and […]
All Four (Are One)
Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group is collaborating on a new offering for Pesach 2024, which we hope to release on Monday April 8 / just before Rosh Chodesh Nisan. As […]
New from Bayit Games: Middot Meditations
Announcing the newest release from Bayit Games: Middot Meditations, an innovative approach to self-reflection using the language of Mussar, Jewish virtue-based ethics. Creator Steve Silbert writes: The Hashkveinu prayer asks […]
Writing in Conversation with the Torah
Authors Sally Wiener Grotta and Judith Sarah Schmidt discuss their parallel intellectual and spiritual journeys that became their newest books: Judith’s Blessing from Broken and Sally’s Daughters of Eve. Neither […]
Remixing the Amidah
Our Liturgical Arts Working Group has been co-creating a series of offerings arising out of the blessings of the Amidah. Sometimes known as The T’filah, the Amidah is at the […]
Amidah Offering: Holy / Kedusha
The third blessing of the Amidah speaks of kedusha, holiness. What does it mean to be holy, or to say that God is holy? What might angels, or our bodies, […]