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Rivka is an outspoken activist for creative spirits, believing that raw, redemptive art-making is the means for mental and spiritual health. Rivka teaches art classes to high schoolers and adults. Check out her current work here ! Rivka has three little ladies who realign her vision, constantly.
It's not seeping into my bones like it used to and I want it back.
You cannot erase the inherent, irreplaceable bond that exists between Jew and Jew, Jew and Land, Jew and Soul by willing it so.It is that love that fertilizes the Holy Land, that binds us forever to each other and to that earth .
Tell me it's possible for us, here and now, in this narrow-minded world to keep this mentality. I'm tired of going back and forth between realities.
Rivka reflects on the wisdom she learned from "Mommy Camp", a long summer vacation at home with her children.
I’m all for the idea that sometimes the best way to fight darkness is to bring a little light into the world. But I think I also used that philosophy to avoid being involved with current events. Until a man proved to me that if I tuned in, I could save lives.
This hakhel year, I want to build a real, in person community like I always imagined.
To him, the Jewish people was not just a concept. It was not just a yoke. It was a dance that was currently happening and he wanted in. He wanted to be in the hora of Jewish history and Jewish present and he wanted to dance around and videotape people and record their stories.
Tonight, he stops to look at me- like really look at me. Except I sense that his eyes are also looking through me, to somewhere halfway in-between my skin and the deep inner recesses of his warmly kept memories.
Now is the time to heal the scars of centuries and of recent times, that have pulled us apart and away from each other. Now is the time to nurture ourselves.
Being young and idealistic, unafraid and untied down, we did what any sensible couple would do. We sold all of our things, returned our wedding gifts, and moved across the world to study in Israel. It was scary and exciting and we had nothing to lose.
Except losing it all.
