Spiritual Practice
The Founding of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) Was Significant: Not Prim...
Posted by Miriam Eisenstein | Apr 26, 2022 | Gender, Spiritual Practice | 0
Guardians of the Dream Temple
Posted by Rabbi Jill Hammer | Apr 26, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 0
Shabbat
Posted by Rabbi Haviva Ner-David | Mar 24, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 0
Shemini: The Danger and the Opportunity of the Eighth Day
by Rabbi Rena Blumenthal | Apr 26, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 0
All around me, I see the fear of the eighth day — fear of the mundane, of the silence, of the now.
The Founding of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) Was Significant: Not Primarily Because of the ‘First Bat Mitzvah’
by Miriam Eisenstein | Apr 26, 2022 | Gender, Spiritual Practice | 0
The big news was the founding of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) earlier that same year, creating an institution where radical change could happen.
Guardians of the Dream Temple
by Rabbi Jill Hammer | Apr 26, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 0
The experience of contact with an elemental dream guide, and the portal that guide tends, can be a life-altering experience.
From Bereaved Refugee to Man of Destiny: A Midrash on Pandemic Languishing and Hearing the Call
by Reb Simcha Rafael, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 1
Abram, Sarai and Lot were alone in the wilderness of unknowing, in grief, unable to return to the old familiar ways. And so it is with us today.
Shabbat
by Rabbi Haviva Ner-David | Mar 24, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 0
The part of me that craved answers, structure and safety struggled with the part that wanted freedom, mystery and adventure.
Celebrating the Seder with the Earth in Mind — The Promise of the Land: A Passover Haggadah
by Rabbi Ellen Bernstein | Feb 20, 2022 | Climate Justice & Environmentalism, Spiritual Practice | 0
Freedom means living according to nature’s cycles of giving and receiving, and giving back.
What to the Black Jew Is Passover?
by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Feb 20, 2022 | Race, Spiritual Practice | 0
Rethink what exactly you may be doing when you invoke Black trauma, and the art created in response to it, as part of your Passover celebrations.
Praying Elohai Neshamah
by Jonah Scott Mendelsohn, David Alon Friedman | Feb 1, 2022 | Spiritual Practice | 0
My soul is pure.
‘Eco-Kashrut’: A ‘Kashrut’ for Our Times
by Lisa Braun Glazer, Ph.D. | Nov 26, 2021 | Climate Justice & Environmentalism, Spiritual Practice | 2
Kashrut is a complex and mysterious term having the same Hebrew root as “kosher.” Simply...
The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal
by Shoshana Fershtman | Nov 26, 2021 | Community, Spiritual Practice | 0
Who is Jewish? Perhaps the person who, while never sure of it, by and by discovers his Jewishness...
Good It Is, Good May It Be: Dream Sharing as a Group Spiritual Journey
by Avruhm Addison | Oct 25, 2021 | Spiritual Practice | 0
By Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison Rabbi Huna ben Ammi said: “If one has a dream … go and have it...
Speak Torah to Power: “Resilience Through the Practice of Lament”
by Dr. Koach Baruch Frazier | Jun 21, 2021 | Spiritual Practice | 0
To heal from our grief, we first need to acknowledge it and then make time for lamentation.
A Tribute to Rabbi Jacob Staub
by Evolve | May 10, 2021 | Spiritual Practice | 0
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
by Rabbi Jacob Staub | May 1, 2021 | Spiritual Practice | 0
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
by Jodi Rosenfeld | Mar 22, 2021 | Spiritual Practice, Text Resources | 0
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?
