Introducing VisualTorah cards!
The Torah is an amazing text bursting with visual metaphors. Every tiny detail of the Torah has significance and multiple meanings that can only be found by looking at Torah […]
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Lech Lecha: Journeying Inside and Out
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. Lech-Lecha opens with the instruction to […]
Our Eternal Ark: How to Build (and Not Build) for Social Justice
Part of an ongoing series about building an ethic of social justice and a world worthy of the sacred. How to cultivate a spiritual ethic of building a social […]
Bereishit: Partnering with God in Co-Creation
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. This week we begin again, a […]
Almost Forty Days
How long does it take to return? That depends… It’s been almost forty days since I set my sights on teshuvah. Even before the first of the month of Elul, when we […]
New Jonah: Our Scales of Justice
For anyone who’s still casting-about to find the right adaptation of Jonah for this year’s Yom Kippur — or for anyone who won’t be at Yom Kippur minha / afternoon […]
For Earth’s Sake: Days of Awe 5783
New from Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group comes this offering of new liturgy, poetry, and art for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — this year crafted with a focus on […]
Mad at Alan Lew
I’m mad at Alan Lew. I know he died in 2009, and I hope his memory blesses us all, but I’m mad anyway. Rabbi Alan Lew is author of the […]
Parsha Shoftim, Capital Pride, and Building our Bayit
This week’s parsha, Shoftim, describes four main forms of communal leadership and presents many different leadership dilemmas. The four types of leadership are: judges, responsible for resolving disputes fairly; monarchs […]
A Week with the Bayit Board
I load my car with my guitar, my computer, tallit and tefillin, giant note pads and brightly-colored markers, a pair of shofarot, and drive north — for a while. This […]