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 […]
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 […]
A glimpse of R. Jennifer Singer’s Reverse Omer Quotes calendar. From Rabbi Jennifer Singer, a founding builder at Bayit who is now part of our Liturgical Arts Working Group, comes […]
In this month when we mourn the destruction of the Temple, we recall King David’s description of Jerusalem, in its glory, as כְּ֝עִ֗יר שֶׁחֻבְּרָה־לָּ֥הּ יַחְדָּֽו – a city that is […]
Many Jewish professionals I know secretly (a few, not so secretly) prefer to take off Tisha b’Av for any number of reasons. It’s too sad. It’s mere nostalgia that never can build […]
Here’s a liturgical rendering of the amazing Amanda Gorman‘s “Hymn for the Hurting” (2022), which she wrote after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, set to the mournful trope of […]
New from Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group comes this offering for Tisha b’Av 5782, available both as a printable PDF and as google slides suitable for screensharing. This year many of […]
Introducing the Graceful Living Deck The Graceful Living deck is a deck of cards that doubles as a tool for spiritual life, designed by Steve Silbert and featuring teachings distilled […]
Many liberal Jews ignore Tisha b’Av, or don’t know it’s there. For many of those whom we serve, Tisha b’Av is either a non-event or a great time to be […]
The Torah was never given to an individual, but rather to a nation. For far too long, many communities have forced those who come out – to get out, and […]