Spiritual Practice
Shemini: The Danger and the Opportunity of the Eighth Day
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’
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
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
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
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
Freedom means living according to nature’s cycles of giving and receiving, and giving back.
What to the Black Jew Is Passover?
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
My soul is pure.
‘Eco-Kashrut’: A ‘Kashrut’ for Our Times
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
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 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”
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?
Evolve is a project of Reconstructing Judaism
