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”
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Sermons
The Danger of Waving a Flag – Rabbi David Kasher
May 22nd, 2020 — Shabbat Bamidbar
The Children of Israel have set up camp, mapped out in a precise arrangement, each tribe standing proudly “under the flag of their ancestral house.” It is a glorious sight, a day of great celebration. But Moses looks out at all the multicolored flags, waving in the wind… and begins to worry.