A poem:
"You pray for silkworms and butterflies.
Dance, and your twisting wrists chafe against shackles.
Sing, and grey moths escape your open throat."
I didn't care.That elusive, expected Potential was for prospectors and seekers of future gratification.
Welcome to an occasional series of posts which I will be publishing on Hevria called, "Is It Heimish?", in which I correct the misuse of the word "heimish".
Shlomo Carlebach said that gentiles tell stories to put themselves to sleep; Jews tell stories to wake themselves up.
Enjoy this playlist inspired by the dream theme in this week’s Torah portion Vayeitzei. I hope it encourages you (and me) to create conscious opportunities to dream our important dreams, and to wake with the all the stuff we need to build them in this world.
Chaya Lester explains why it is so painful to hear calls for peace and reconciliation in response to the slaughter of Jews in Jerusalem.
Describing the era immediately preceding the Big Bang and ensuing inception of life as we know it, the Kabbalists describe how this unified intelligence shattered, sending sparks of primordial light throughout what would soon become our entire universe. These luminescent shards of the ultimate source-code remain hidden away to this day, concealed in mundane aspects of our life, waiting for someone to come along and decode the message
You’re only psychologically tricking yourself into artificial empathy that will get you nowhere.
A set of poems and thoughts written by some of Hevria's writers in reaction to the terror attack that took five lives in a Jerusalem synagogue today.
How come the people I love most trigger me to behave so bad? What oh-so-sensitive buttons are these relationships pushing?
I have yet to find an answer. But I want to try.
