We met today for a service built around exploring images/metaphors/theologies of the Divine, launching from the opening of today's parsha. Our liturgy put forward many different ideas and images, then in our torah discussion we learned just a bit about alternative images of divinity that have existed across Jewish history and live on in our … Continue reading Fringes January 2024: if God is energy, I sit in God’s hand
Gatherings Elliott Femynye batTzedek Gather your strengths and gather your failures Gather your kin and gather your strangers Gather what you love and what you fear Gather what you have lost and what you have yet to find Find the courage to proclaim “All we gather is sacred”
For Torah study in our November service we began a discussion about the article below. In the face of Jewish Institutional Life despair about Jews intermarrying and not joining synagogues, Rami puts forth a vision of a Jewish future that accounts for our multi-cultural, modern lives even while valuing the story of our particular tribe. … Continue reading Judaism Next – Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s vision of a vastly-reformed Judaism