Sap Rising: Tu BiShvat 5782
New from Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group comes this offering for Tu BiShvat 5782, available both as a printable PDF and as illuminated google slides suitable for screensharing. Here are four […]
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Trisha Arlin in From Narrow Places
Support Trisha: www.trishaarlin.com/support-my-work Buy the book: yourbayit.org/narrow-places/ Trisha Arlin, a builder in Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group, is a liturgist, writer, performer and student of prayer in […]
More for Chanukah
Here are some selections from last year’s Chanukah offerings, now available as slides suitable for screensharing: “My Father’s Menorah” and “Chanukah of Stars” by Rabbi Jennifer Singer, “Second Calendar” by […]
Rolling Darkness Into Light – Chanukah 5782
New from Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group comes this offering for Chanukah 5782. The pandemic has become endemic, and our planet is imperiled. Chanukah comes not to distract us from […]
The Melody That Binds: singing as connective spiritual practice
“Zum gali gali gali, zum gali gali…” That’s the first song I ever remember being taught to sing, as a nursery school student at Shellbank Jewish Center. As a grade […]
On Reconciliation, Building, and Bereishit
Yesterday was the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, commemorating the painful and tragic legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada. 140 such schools operated between 1831 and […]
Selections from Ushpizin
Here’s an excerpt from Ushpizin: Liturgy for Sukkot in Time of COVID, in google slides format suitable for screensharing. Moadim l’simcha! Ushpizin – google slides. Ushpizin – google slides. […]
Graceful Living / Graceful Masculinity: V’zos HaBracha
Part of a periodic Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values. וַיָּ֨מת שָׁ֜ם מֹשֶׁ֧ה עֶבֶד־יְקוָ֛ק בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מוֹאָ֖ב עַל־פִּ֥י יְקוָֽק׃ And Moses, servant of Hashem, died there, in the land […]
Graceful Bar Mitzvah / Graceful Masculinity: Nitzavim
Part of a periodic Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values. רְאֵה נָתַתִּי לְפָנֶיךָ הַיּוֹם, אֶת-הַחַיִּים וְאֶת-הַטּוֹב, וְאֶת-הַמָּוֶת, וְאֶת-הָרָע. See, I set before you this day, life and goodness, […]
A New Digital Kapparot Before Yom Kippur
Background The custom of kapparot dates back to the Talmud. According to this tradition, on the day before Yom Kippur, people take a chicken, swing it three times above their […]