God

Where was God when I was run over by the train? God was there when the nurses treated me with kindness as I slowly recovered from the pain, when my broad community visited me in the hospital.

A Path Back to Jewish Living

by Bette Birnbaum | Sep 8, 2020 | God, Why Be Jewish?

I experienced the God I could believe in — One who inhered in the divinity of human striving here on earth.

God Is the Space Between Us

by Rabbi Alex Weissman | Jan 6, 2020 | God, Spiritual Practice

God is the space between the one who needs and the one who is needed.

Divine Justice

by Rabbi Deborah Waxman | Jan 6, 2020 | God

Faith in a God who is not personal and does not intervene supernaturally animates our sense of the beauty and sanctity of the world. It also enables us to maintain faith and equanimity in the face of tragedy.

God Cafes

by Sarah Brammer-Shlay | Jan 6, 2020 | Community, God

In our culture, talking about our experience of God/the Divine or our relationship with God/the Divine is uncommon and even countercultural. Doing so often satisfies a deep need.

God’s Presence in All Things

by Rabbi Danielle Parmenter | Jan 6, 2020 | God

A description of one individual’s experience that the whole world is filled with God’s glory.

Cleaving to God: A Jewish Way of Prayer

by Rabbi Shefa Gold | Oct 29, 2018 | God, Spiritual Practice

Rabbi Shefa Gold describes the practice of devekut, the continual remembrance of God that leads us past the edge of what can be expressed through words.

Beyond the Kingdom: Transforming God Imagery

by Gwynn Kessler | Oct 29, 2018 | Gender, God

A brilliant homily for Rosh Hashanah that queers the biblical texts and suggests that there are many allusions in the Bible to the ambiguous, nonbinary gender identity of God.

Jewish Spiritual Direction: Fundamental Assumptions

by Rabbi Jacob Staub | Oct 29, 2018 | God, Spiritual Practice

Our view of reality can be transformed when we ask, “Where is God/the Holy in this?” and “What is the invitation/opportunity at this moment?” Gradually, we can build a relationship with what is beyond our ability to conceive.

Voice, Water, Place: New/Old Ways of Understanding God

by Rabbi Toba Spitzer | Oct 29, 2018 | God

We are heir to a rich assortment of metaphors for God that may resonate more powerfully than the High Holy Day images of king and judge.

God

by Evolve | May 8, 2018 | God

Nothing in Jewish history has evolved more frequently or more radically than the ways we describe God. Here we continue the ongoing Jewish project of describing that which is beyond description.