We met on Shabbat morning at a perilous moment, caught between the our lives in a violent empire where hope can be hard to hold on to and the coming of spring, when rises along with the sap and the warming of the earth. Our liturgy helped us move between those poles of our daily lives.

You can download our liturgy slides here.

For our torah study, Sue Hoffman led a discussion of the different images/metaphors for divinity that exist both in Jewish tradition and in our own lives, starting from Toba Spitzer’s book “God is Here: Reimagining the Divine.” As is always true of our community, a rebellion against the need for a single “God” ran up against a deep desire to have words for how we choose to live connected to the world. Our most common metaphor/image for the possibility for justice? Community, always community.

We learned a new song also from the Singing Resistance movement, “The Night is Long” by Heather Mae.