Learning to look at ourselves. Join our weekly study of Rabbi Bachya Ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart" on the art of self-examination. Wednesdays at 1pm EST. (zoom link available on request)

I fall I break I am made of chewing gum and chicken wire a wondrous array of aches and pains shaped roughly like the old me just older

Advice on how to check in on your spiritual life with the Judeo-Sufi classic "Duties of the Heart." All are welcome. Wednesdays at 1pm EST. (Zoom link available on request)

The mystery of attraction. The fly to dung The moth to flame We come for nourishment. We come for extinction. We arrive with dreams. Leave with nightmares. We are drawn to glitter puzzles, disasters, an impassioned pursuit of a bliss forever in retreat

What does God ask of you? To climb the steepest most narrow paths bearing the yoke of mercy and justice with grace and gladness for Him.

Come join our weekly study of Tehillim/ Psalms / Zabur on Mondays 1pm EST. All are welcome! (message me for a Zoom link)

Accept wisdom where you find it. Come join us in our study of Pirkei Avot, the ancient teachings of the Rabbis. All are welcome! Every Tuesday at 1pm EST. Request a zoom link.

Exploring our inner space with the Judeo-Sufi classic, "Duties of the Heart". Wednesdays at 1pm EST. All are welcome. Message for a zoom linkl

On hearing a Turkish love song... They looked out the window at one another holding the wooden frames so tightly they splintered in their hands they spoke they sang but only with their eyes. Theirs was an archaic love pre-verbal etched in the shape of their lips but never in

A prayer for today..

Religions has two parts, the outside and the inside. Come explore the inside with the Judeo-Sufi classic “Duties of the Heart” with me and other good folks. All are welcome! Wednesdays 1pm EST (message me for a zoom link if you need it)

Come experience the wisdom and passion of the Psalms / Tehillim / Zabur. All are welcome! Mondays at 1pm EST Ask for a zoom link if you don't have it and come!

The Observed: Algae cells nested in fungus symbiosis clinging to the bark of a tree parasitic The Observer: A traveler tossed in the chamber of exchanges a spoke turning on the wheel of dependent co-origination. The Observation: It is all mystery.

Come join us for our new weekly study of Pirkei Avot (Chapters of the Fathers) teachings on ethics and spirituality. Tuesdays at 1pm EST (message me for the Zoom link if you don’t have it yet)

Caveat: This is not a comment about any particular conflict. It is about Torah. I feel that for many this statement has become the very essence of Torah. "The Gemara in Sanhedrin 72a tells us of the Rodef, the one pursuing to eliminate us. It says, do not wait, but rather "בא

I live on a dim promise of a world to be seen through a clear lens weather inside and outside fragments my view shapes, shadows, outlines of the unseen. I will beg again for clarity. This, for me, is prayer.

Be among those who embrace wisdom wherever they find it! All are welcome to join us in our weekly study of the ethical and spiritual teachings of the ancient rabbis (Pirkei Avot) Every Tuesday at 1pm EST. Message me for a zoom link if you don't have it yet.

Doomscrolling war and fire a woman clinging to the bars of her husband’s cell the performance art of hopelessness. Beyond the pane a bluejay holds a twig in its beak a builder not a breaker. (art by Fukuoji Kazuhiko)

Rabbi Yehudah ha Nasi said.. What is the way a person should choose for themself? What is beautiful to the person who does it and what is beautiful to other human beings. Our job is not to be popular or famous but to draw respect to ourselves by being respectable, to invite