Torah tells us that we are meant to be a nation of priests. It is our calling and our destiny. And now the call is even broader. Because right now we are being called to be a Planet of Priests. Each of us tending the altar of our relationships with God and Earth and each other. Offering up our guilt over the profit-driven, Earth-consuming culture we have allowed to take root. And offering up like fragrant incense our gratitude for the simple and intimate gifts of connection and food and shelter.
Read moreBy Our Own Hands (Vayakhel in Quarantine)
But whatever is ahead, the best of it will come from the people. We, the people, whose inspired ideas and skilled fingers will concoct new ways of being together, new ways of being, period.
Read moreKoved – Virus and Humanity
In this moment of unfolding epidemic, I am called to honor the complexity of the Creation we live in. This Creation in which uncountable species compete for space and survival, including the tiniest ones, who can sometimes, without malice, take down the mightiest among us.
Read moreNora Tehilot: Finding the Words
This turns the prayer experience into a bad first date. Like here you are, face to face at last with God, and it all seems like empty small talk. Or bad pickup lines. “Wow. Who is there like you? Awe-inspiring, working wonders.”
Read moreI Am What I Am
Ehyeh asher ehyeh. I am what I am. I am what I am and I barely know what I am. Let alone what you are. Maybe ehyeh asher ehyeh is an invitation for us to see the greatness, the expansiveness, the Divine in each other. To see everything in us – no matter how we judge ourselves – as a gift. Like that old Leonard Bernstein joke.
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