Are you a synagogue or what? Yes and no and kinda. Words like “synagogue” can feel constraining, and we want to think expansively about what Jewish life can be… so we think of ourselves as a spiritual community, and let the experience define itself.
“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.”–Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, “On Prayer”
We are all searching for something. What’s your thing?
Sermons
Tears of Hope – Rabbi Ronit Tsadok
July 11th, 2020 — Shabbat Pinhas
This year, it is not hard to connect with this period on the Jewish calendar, a time of mourning, of lament and of tears. But what tools can our tradition offer us to respond to the brokenness around us?
