“Hi, I'm Chaya and I’m addicted to positive thinking.”
How to be half-Russian, half-Orthodox, and half-religious, but a whole Jew.
My parents Abe and Sara wanted to be radical and change everything. But my rebellion was just being normal. Or at least, that’s what you would think if you saw me.
A poetic interaction with sacred texts for Kol Nidre, created for Open Temple's service.
In the star-strewn field where we meet... Before the gates close... Hold me in a slow-dance ecstatic embrace.
What will you do with all of this outrageous beauty?
In Vayishlach, Yaakov is given a new name: Israel. We may learn from Yaakov's life journey that God is always with us even during the darkest days. Through crippling and painful darkness, He never abandons Israel.
The High Holidays can sometimes feel like being a kid lost in a department store, amiright?
Impermanence, no self, non-attachment: no, thanks.