Spiritual Practice

Notice the spider web—the thin, silvery, strong and beautiful lines of light that connect you to those other Points of Light.

We have a hard road ahead, but not a lonely one. We have each other. And we have the Divine at our side, at our back, and within us.

It is important to find a sustainable sense of balance and long-term hope throughout a period of challenge, loss, disappointment and fear.

I have been in relationship with Joseph for years — wondering, puzzling, collecting the many hints in Torah that point to some queerness, some difference in Joseph’s gender.

The Maccabees, at least in their early days, were standard-bearers of the fundamentalist camp.

The presence of her absence fills the spaces where she used to be; the presence of her absence, that is what we live with now.

Rabbi Levi’s Abraham passes the test because he remains sufficiently calm and clear-thinking to avert a misinterpretation that would have ended Isaac’s life.

Interrupting ancestral patterns can be an important way to “honor your father and mother.”

My great-grandmother tells me that things have always been bad — that things have never been “normal” or calm or safe.