Hearts Made for Love (by God): Acharei Mot #LGBTQ #PRIDE

 

Hearts Made for Love (by God): Acharei Mot #LGBTQ #PRIDE https://youtu.be/ZDuoXocfQGk via @YouTube

ty @AWiderBridge for this beautiful, inclusive #Jewish #PrideFlag

May 8, A Shloshim Learning in memory of Rachel Brodie z"l

 

Learning on Yom HaShoah 2022 from the Eish Kodesh, Rabbi Kalonumous Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto. #YomHashoah #Zachor

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. #YomHaShoah

,אַשְׁרֵי הַגַּפְרוּר שֶׁנִּשְׂרַף וְהִצִּית לֶהָבוֹת

.אַשְׁרֵי הַלְּהָבָה שֶׁבָּעֲרָה בְּסִתְרֵי לְבָבוֹת

...אַשְׁרֵי הַלְבָבוֹת שֶׁיָדְעוּ לַחְדוֹל בְּכָבוֹד

.אַשְׁרֵי הַגַּפְרוּר שֶׁנִּשְׂרַף וְהִצִּית לֶהָבוֹת

Blessed is the match consumed

in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns 

in the secret fastness of the heart.
Blessed is the heart with strength 

to stop its beating for honor's sake.
Blessed is the match consumed 

in kindling flame.

- Hannah Szenes z"lm after she parachuted into a partisan camp in Yugoslavia

#YomHaShoah

A New High Holidays? How to the modern commemorations of the Israeli Holidays fit into the Jewish calendar and consciousness? UJA Sources

Introduction

• Yom Hashoa, Yom Ha’Zikaron, & Yom Ha’atzmaut: Israel’s “High Holiday Season”(Rabbi Adam Raskin)

Yom HaShoah veHagevruah (Holocaust Memorial Day)

• 5 Rituals and Prayers for Yom HaShoah (ritualwell.org)
• A Prayer for Yom HaShoah | Rabbi Sacks
• Yom HaShoah Prayers and Poems | To Bend Light
• Movement Creates Shoah Scroll To Ritualize Holocaust Holiday (forward.com)

Yom HaZikaron (Israel's Veterans' Day)

• Yom HaZikaron - Israeli Memorial Day (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
• Yizkor for Yom HaZikaron (NFTY)
• Prayers and Poems for IDF Soldiers – American Zionist Movement (azm.org)

Yom Ha'Atzma'ut (Israel's Independence Day)

• Prayer for the State of Israel (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
• Israel's independence and the dispute over God - The Jewish Chronicle (thejc.com)
• Reexamining the Prayer for the State of Israel (sefaria.org)
• A Prayer for the Leadership of Israel -- Jewish Ritual (ritualwell.org)

Living Fiercely in an "Acharei Mot" World

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

Remembering the #WarsawGhettoUprising, 79 years ago today, in memory of all our ancestors, in memory of the martyrs, may we remember that we are called to be the ones who show up. May we rededicate ourselves to fight for human dignity every where around the world. May we be the first to show up every time.

 

Rachel Brodie's "Taxonomies of Jewish Identity." And a tweet.

I've been scouring social media for mentions of Rachel Brodie z"l, whose funeral is in a few hours in California. And, inevitably, I'm finding lots of times over the years when I couldn't help but post something about or from her. This tweet from 2012 says so much. The graphic in the background is what she called "Taxonomies of Jewish Identity," lines of connection between the countless ideas in her capacious mind/soul. The quote demonstrates her quick wit and her functional brilliance.

God, I miss her so very much. It's very hard to understand my world without her.

for a glimpse into her professional presentation of the gifts of her person: https://lnkd.in/djGVhH6a

Morning Torah: Passover Prep Conversation #1

Shabbat HaGadol Teaching in Response to the Attack in #TelAviv (@UJAfedNY Morning Torah Broadcast #522). #ShabbatHaGadol #WhiteShirt #MustBeFriday #Ukraine #ShabbatShalom

Shabbat HaGadol Teaching in Response to the Attack in #TelAviv (@UJAfedNY Morning Torah Broadcast #522). https://youtu.be/Qu15TsKayC4 via @YouTube #Metzora #ShabbatHaGadol #WhiteShirt #MustBeFriday #Ukraine #ShabbatShalom

Metzora as Seeker: A Morning Torah conversation with Rachel Brodie!

Hinei Anochi, a song for Shabbat HaGadol (feat. Ariel Creditor)