Some people are just scary and terrifying and we should never, ever, ever try to talk to them. That is not at all what this post is about.
Pay no attention to my complaints. This is one of the best decisions I ever made.
There are times when your heart continuing to beat has to be enough.
My teacher called "Salvador Litvak" on the first day of class, and I told her I go by "Alex." No one batted an eye, but deep down I felt like a coward.
I was made for breaking. I am built from the raw material of utter destruction, every fissure
bursting with crumpled petition.
An astonishing fire blazes within. You must spill forth this light, or be consumed from inside. This is the sacred act of spark extraction. This is returning to the knowing in your bones.
Women with voices at weddings is nothing less than our next highly urgent step of spiritual evolution. Not only is it permissible...it is a spiritual imperative.
Galut (exile) is when we sooner believe them over ourselves in reading the truths of our own skin, in deciphering the lifelines of our own palms.
Simply being unapologetically Jewish is a political act.
