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. […]
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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 […]
Go to Nineveh: A Two-Jonah Duet for Yom Kippur
Here is a new retelling of the book of Jonah, for three voices, drawing on the past year’s events to open up the book’s timeless wisdom. Here’s how it begins: […]
Graceful Inheritance / Graceful Masculinity: Ki Tavo
Part of a periodic Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values. וְהָיָה, כִּי–תָבוֹא אֶל–הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה; וִירִשְׁתָּהּ, וְיָשַׁבְתָּ בָּהּ. It will be when you enter […]
What our prayer shawls carry
Right now there are 15 tallitot in my house. How did I get here? One tallit is my son’s bar mitzvah tallit; one is the “girly” tallit I sometimes wear; […]
Graceful Masculinity / Graceful Building: Ki Seitzei
כִּי תִבְנֶה בַּיִת חָדָשׁ, וְעָשִׂיתָ מַעֲקֶה לְגַגֶּךָ; וְלֹא-תָשִׂים דָּמִים בְּבֵיתֶךָ, כִּי-יִפֹּל הַנֹּפֵל מִמֶּנּוּ. If you will build a new house, you shall make a fence for your roof, so that […]
A week of building with Bayit
Top row: T-shirts courtesy of Steve Silbert; the Bayit Board meets onsite and online; kayaking on the lake. Bottom row: morning davening gear, and our morning davening spot. When […]
Gates, Open and Closing – New Liturgy / Poetry / Art for Selichot and Ne’ilah
These offerings (new from Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group) are bookends for the Days of Awe. Here are poems, prayers, and artworks for Selichot and for Ne’ilah, the near and […]