At Limmud Philly 2012, I debuted a new workshop: Jewish Ritual Craft – A framework for ritual designing better rituals. It’s based on a year-long class I’m teaching at my home spiritual community of Becoming, but adapted for an entirely Jewish audience. Below, after jump, are the materials created for the...
read moreHere’s the replay of the Rosh Chodesh Tevet & Hanukkah candle lighting service at OneShul.org, recorded on December 27, 2011. What a wacky, fun service it was — at least for me! Check over at PunkTorah.org very soon for my article there about Tevet and the experiment with bibliomancy that we did during the...
read moreThe travel altar is working out better than I expected! It’s still top heavy, but I’m managing to compensate for that. I now tuck a special mirror inside along with my Netivot prayer beads. It lives in my carry on bag, and since I’ve been on the road a ton, it’s getting a lot of use. The mirror I love...
read moreIt turns out the practice I’ve decided to take on during Cheshvan isn’t the red string at all, but rather a more disciplined meditation practice. I’ve done meditation work in the past, and my morning prayer practice certainly has meditation aspect to it, but I’ve never really had a formal meditation...
read moreI am grateful this Yom Kippur for every gift in my life, especially just the chance to wake up each day and start again. Thank you to all who support me in so many ways. I hope that I’ve in no way injured you in the past year, and I hope in the year to come we will all feel that our work together mutually supports each...
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Culture: I am fascinated by both culture on most levels. I mostly focus on American culture and what makes us who we are as a country, but I'm also intrigued by sub-cultures in the USA and the growing global cultural trends.
