Announcing In the Light of Peace!
Mazal tov to Leiah Bowden, Abby Bogomolny, Sally Churgel, Rita Rapoport Rowan, and the Ner Shalom community: this week Bayit is releasing In the Light of Peace, a collection of poetry. Here’s […]
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#ColorTheOmer at ReformJudaism.org!
Jews customarily count the Omer during the seven weeks between the second day of Passover and the beginning of Shavuot, a process dating back to when ancient Israelites would offer an omer (an ancient Hebrew measure of […]
Digital Afikomen: Building the “Seek and Find” Online
Here’s a stellar example of adapting the physical to the digital, right in time for home Passover rituals online. From R. Lex Rofeberg (Bayit’s newest Sounding Board member, of Judaism Unbound fame) and his […]
Keep the Fire Burning
During 5781, a group of Bayit builders, led by R. Cynthia Hoffman, is studying the writings of the Baal Shem Tov. First and foremost we’re studying “lishma,” for the sake […]
Palabras del Torá / a “vort” of Torah from R’ Sunny Schnitzer
Bayit offers video “vorts” (words of Torah / teachings from Jewish tradition) offered in or translated into Spanish, designed for Cuban Jewish communities and available to Spanish-speaking Jews everywhere. This […]
Approaching Our Second COVID Seder
New from Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group comes this offering of poetry, liturgy, and artwork for this second pandemic Pesach. This collaborative collection is available in two formats: as a downloadable PDF […]
How To #ColorTheOmer
So you’ve got a copy of Color the Omer, and you’re wondering whether there’s a “right” way to use it. Here’s an answer from illustrator Steve Silbert: If you don’t yet […]
Color the Omer is here!
Mazal tov to Bayit builders Dr. Shari Berkowitz and Steve Silbert, whose collaboration brought Color The Omer to life and into print this week. Here’s an awesome piece about the […]
Graceful Optimism / Graceful Masculinity – Ki Tisa
Part of a periodic Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values. וַיִּשְׁמַע הָעָם, אֶת–הַדָּבָר הָרָע הַזֶּה—וַיִּתְאַבָּלוּ; וְלֹא–שָׁתוּ אִישׁ עֶדְיוֹ, עָלָיו. The people heard this bad tiding and they […]
Graceful Companionship / Graceful Masculinity: Tetzaveh
Part of a periodic Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values. וְאַתָּה תְּצַוֶּה אֶת-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, וְיִקְחוּ אֵלֶיךָ שֶׁמֶן זַיִת זָךְ כָּתִית–לַמָּאוֹר: לְהַעֲלֹת נֵר, תָּמִיד. And you will command the […]