Announcing Holy at Home
Many communities face Days of Awe this year that will be streamed / Zoom-based, rather than in person. This will be a High Holiday season like no other we’ve known. […]
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Coming Closer Through Protest / Graceful Masculinity – Balak
Part of a periodic Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values. וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נְאֻ֤ם בִּלְעָם֙ בְּנ֣וֹ בְעֹ֔ר וּנְאֻ֥ם הַגֶּ֖בֶר שְׁתֻ֥ם הָעָֽיִן׃ He declaimed his parable and said: ”The […]
Palabras del Torá / a “vort” of Torah from R’ Bella Bogart
Each month Bayit offers regular 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 […]
Psalm 92 by Rabbi Ben Newman
This rendering of Psalm 92 was written by Rabbi Ben Newman. In his Kabbalat Shabbat siddur he notes that the psalm’s function is “[t]o inspire feelings of relaxed celebration […]
Seeking Submissions for Jewish Doorways
A contest for heart, spirit, and mind. We are expanding JewishDoorways, with more entryways to making life events meaningful. We’d love for you to be a part of this project. […]
The False Piety of All Lives Matter
“All of the nation is holy and G-d dwells within each of them.” (Numbers 16:3) Korach’s argument sounds compelling. At first glance, it’s not clear what he does wrong. Yet […]
How does Gratitude Change the World? A Prayer for Anger by Trisha Arlin
This prayer comes from liturgist Trisha Arlin, who writes, “I wrote this incantation because I found myself feeling furious at all the seemingly contradictory feelings of gratitude, anger, love, […]
Mah Nora HaMakom Hazeh – a chant for (digital) sacred space
One of the challenges of convening a group for prayer over Zoom is shifting gears into sacred space. How can we sanctify the space where each of us is planted, […]
Psalm 27 – a new translation by Rabbi Jamie Arnold
Here’s a new translation of Psalm 27 by Rabbi Jamie Arnold. Psalm 27 is traditionally recited daily during Elul, the month leading up to the Days of Awe… though the […]
Ashrei á la the Dalai Lama
This variation on the Ashrei uses quotations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to articulate the themes of the Ashrei. Like the classical Ashrei, it is an alphabetical acrostic, and […]