Our Collective Heartbreak
Disbelief, fear, anger, grief, despair, love, anguish, longing, solidarity, alienation, hope: since October 7 we’ve felt all of these and more. This is our attempt to give voice to some […]
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Renew Our Hearts is Here
The kernel of the idea was: wouldn’t it be great to have a beautiful, meaningful, comprehensive and creative siddur for Shabbat — featuring all of the liturgy we know and […]
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 […]
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) […]