TDOR and the Struggle to Feel the Blessing
Transgender Day of Remembrance is observed annually, on November 20, to honor the lives that have been lost to anti-transgender violence; may their memories be for a blessing. […]
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Parsha Vayeira – Ancestral Allyship and Intergenerational Impact
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. כִּ֣י יְדַעְתִּ֗יו לְמַ֩עַן֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְצַוֶּ֜ה אֶת־בָּנָ֤יו וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ֙ […]
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 […]
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 […]