New prayer: A Mom’s Affirmation
I am the mom of the spunky kids, The “extra” kids, The special kids, The misbehaving and noisy kids. They get to thrive And be a brightly burning flame Because […]
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Chasing Justice, Outside and In
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. Concerns about justice and rightness are top headlines […]
Amidah Offering: All This Power / Gevurot
The second blessing of the Amidah speaks to a God of gevurah: strength, heroism, boundaries, power. This blessing names God as the One Who enlivens the dead (or the deadened, […]
For This Year’s Tisha b’Av
Here are three resources for Tisha b’Av — one new for this year, the other two reprised but hopefully still meaningful. What Gets Me Not just the litany of […]
A Week of Building With the Bayit Board
Every summer the Bayit board gathers for a retreat. There are board meetings, of course. There are big-picture conversations about what we’re building, how we’re building it, whom […]
If We Build: D’varim 5783
It’s Shabbat Hazon, the “Shabbat of Vision.” This Shabbat gets its name from tomorrow morning’s Haftarah, in which Isaiah describes a vision of calamities that will befall Jerusalem and […]
Matot-Masei: And All for One: Building the Spiritual Ethic to Join “Another’s” Cause
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine “Injustice anywhere is a threat to […]
Covering My Head
How could one little doily mean so much? Growing up what we might now call Conservadox, it was pretty clear. Boys and men wore kippot; married (and widowed and divorced) […]
Amidah Offering: Ancestors
The first blessing of the Amidah names God as “God of” Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and in liberal Jewish spaces, also God of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah. What does […]
Prayerbooks in Your Onion Baskets – from Life Lessons from Recently Dead Rabbis
This is an excerpt from R. Mark Asher Goodman’s Life Lessons from Recently Dead Rabbis: Hassidut for the People, now available for purchase. Illustration by Steve Silbert. Each chapter of […]