Spiritual Practice
Speak Torah to Power: “Resilience Through the Practice of Lament”
To heal from our grief, we first need to acknowledge it and then make time for lamentation.
A Tribute to Rabbi Jacob Staub
We are pleased to offer the following essays as a tribute to Evolve’s editor, Rabbi Jacob...
Cultivating Trust: God Supports All Those Who Fall
The book of Psalms says, “God supports all those who fall.” It doesn’t say, “God supports those who don’t fall.” In order to fall, you need to let go.
Beruriah’s Wisdom: Everything we have is borrowed from a Divine source
What if we were to understand divinity as the source from which we borrow all that we have — our loved ones, our bodies, our material possessions, our memories?
Hope as an Ethical Imperative
Having faith in the power of an ethical/spiritual vision guides our action and activism toward revitalization, justice and compassion.
Celebrating Purim in Recovery: Shared History and Personal Experience
For those who live with addiction or substance dependency, there are occasions that test one’s commitment to sobriety. The greatest gift we can give is to dispense with any expectation of inebriation as a mitzvah or an obligation.
Robed in Malkhut: The Hidden and Revealed in Esther (and Us)
When like Queen Esther, we lose ourselves in beauty or in purpose, it is divine Malkhut asserting itself. And in that state, there is much we can do.
Hanukkah, Light and Resistance
This piece is taken from the dvar Torah delivered at the inaugural meeting of the Jews of Color...
Chaos and Creation
Just like the unformed void that eventually became the Earth through the power of G-d’s creative imprint, memory is the process and power of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained.
The Azazel Chapbook: An Earth-Based Yom Kippur Guide
Azazel: עזאזל; entire removal [of sin and guilt from sacred places into desert on back of goat,...
The Prepositional Rabbi: The Small Hebrew Words That Make All the Difference
I want to make room for complexity and nuance, to be flexible enough to change direction to meet the needs of everyone I serve, to assist in the building of connection and relationship, and to help people shift perspective in ways that can open up unexplored depths.
To Be a Mystic-Activist
To be a mystic-activist means that I must live in the light of what I know to be true. Through this light, I must heal the racism that is my conditioning and find the deeper knowing that we are one Being.
A Contemplative Amidah
Rabbi Weinberg takes us through each paragraph of the Amidah, offering windows through which we can pray contemplatively.
The Pandemic as a Teacher
People are radiating their compassionate awareness that we are all in this together — all of us facing a deadly and invisible foe. Might we continue to be kinder with one another even after the threat of the virus is gone?
“We Ask Your Forgiveness”: Hevra Kadisha As a Spiritual Practice
It is said that caring for the dead in this way — an opportunity to perform what our tradition rightly calls hesed shel emet, an act of true lovingkindness — is the ultimate act of selfless devotion, for we do it knowing that it can never be reciprocated.
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