Rabbi Adam Lavitt is the rabbi and chaplain at Orchard Cove, a campus of Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston. He also serves as a spiritual director in Boston and Providence, R.I. Graduating from the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in 2012, he has since served as assistant rabbi at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in West Newton, Mass., and campus rabbi at Swarthmore College outside of Philadelphia. He is an alumnus of CLAL’s Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship, the JOIN for Justice Clergy Fellowship and the Boston Bridges Fellowship. Adam lives in Providence with his husband, Alex
We celebrate our liberation from slavery on Pesakh, and we work for the liberation of all those who remain oppressed, including undocumented people held in ICE prisons.
How do we cultivate the resilience to rebound from mass shootings and incarcerations? Rabbi Adam Lavitt offers some advice from the Book of Psalms in his piece.