Life is a Sacred Text (Page 5)

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Painting of a man in a turban sitting in a chair, looking at a book held by a kneeling man. There are tall candles.

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Seeking the History Behind The Mythtory

Two people sitting in a sukkah, one with guitar and kippah and beard, amongst gorgeous art depicting biblical figures

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Be Our Guest

Flowery illuminated manuscript of the opening page of Deuteronomy

Tools for the Long Haul

Wooden sculpture of a book with river stones spiraled inside

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The Book of (Your) Life

“Inscribe us in the Book of Life,” Kotvenu b’sefer he-ḥayyim, Jews pray between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This comes from a midrash in the Talmud (Rosh Hashana 32b) about our fates in the year to come, but it also brings to mind an equally important question of this

Expressionist-style painting of a person looking at horror at someone killed, house on fire

"...a being whose anguish may reach the heart of God."

October Seventh

A manuscript with a series of interlocking circles with calendar months, weeks, etc.

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Chronograms for the New Year

apple carved to look like a butterfly

Head of the Year

Purple image of an older man and a woman singing with their eyes closed, images super imposed on each other

easier to ask for forgiveness...?

Penitential Prayers and A Family Legacy, Revitalized

Biblically accurate angel with halo and wings and horns and tail

Guest Post: S. Bear Bergman is feeling... inclined

On the yetzers -- the good and evil inclinations in Judaism

the place of all possibility adina allen

the wild, fertile place of all possibility

A dedication stone to Christopher Columbus and STOLEN LAND is graffiti'd on top of it

Jews and Colonialism

tell every truth, push your understanding of power

blue fabric with a tear, being mended with white thread and needle

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repenting, and, hopefully, repair

Photo of a white masc person with a goatee and a cowboy hat outside, looking pensive

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read this instead

A graphic illustration with 3 people (women? femmes?) who are Black, Brown and Asian, and the words Envision Peace

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the work of peacemaking

Rabbi Alan Lew, z'l

Food. Money. Sex. Tech.

a practice to see yourself more closely, from Rabbi Alan Lew

gorgeous sparkly dotted watercolor

Soul Cycles

top image is a before/after nose job drawing. Bottom is prince charming putting the slipper on Cinderella.

Jews, Gender and Assimilation

Roots! Tropes! Tensions!

Joachim Prinz in black and white speaking into mics

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the law and the land

photo of a white young man

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May his memory be for a blessing ❤️

It's an album cover for the band the Liz Pharisees

Wrapping up Jesus

A sample platter of Gospel x Rabbinics mashups

Japanese print of ocean sea and flowers

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Another Batch of Q & As

Painting of two figures, similar to each other, though one is blue and one is more violet-toned.

GUEST POST: On Tisha B'Av, Grief and Transformation After Assault, by Rabbi Amalya Volz

On seeking-- and finding-- God even in the horrors that defy explanation.

Image of the US/Mexico wall from above-- big picnic table stretching across it; tablecloth is a haunting photo of eyes

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spirituality x justice

taking a moment to see the forest as a whole

Jesus on the cross wrapped in a tallis, Jews persecuted elsewhere in the frame

Jesus and Beit Hillel (Part 2!)

And Matthew 23. Let's have a look.

drawing of bunnies all around a pond full of froggies

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ask the rabbi and each other!!