What does a birthday mean? In this powerful work of everyday spirituality, legendary community educator Yehudis Fishman gives us her take on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s famous challenge to make our own birthdays more meaningful. Fishman takes us on a walk through a garden of years.
by Dan Thomas
The poems in this collection were written during an extended residency at Farfields Farm in 2016, and the poet’s experiences in Virginia form the emotional core of this work. How do we lose ourselves, seek ourselves, and find ourselves again? How does the search for identity expose us to new passions, new spirits, and new symbols? What does it mean to find God in nature, in community, or in words?
This monograph explores the relationship of Sabbath and land in our ancient tradition as well as the current Shmita moment.
Written in clear, luminous prose, the work serves as an ode to this Shmita / Shabbat Ha’Aretz year and the Shabbat cycles ahead.
Eden Pearlstein’s Nothing Is for Everyone is a manifesto of the unmanifest. Deeply, devotedly hybrid in influence and expression, this wild collection draws on rabbinic linguistics and kabbalistic meditation, free jazz and hip-hop, Marcel Duchamp and the Magid of Mezritch—all to reveal the permutational quality of language itself: its instability, resistance to containment, and divine fault lines. In these times when answers are plentiful and questions impoverished, Pearlstein’s insistence on the materiality of nothingness reveals that in fact nothing really matters.
Translated from the Hebrew original, Chasidim Just Laugh contains a collection of reflections, aphorisms, and teachings from one of the most extraordinary Israel thinkers and spiritual leaders in recent decades.
With accompanying commentary and stories about Rabbi Froman, this edition provides the English-language reader with a highly accessible but thought-provoking overview of his essential thought on Jewish-Arab relations, Israeli society, marriage and relationships, faith, doubt, joy, religion, ritual, and so much else.
by Zohar Atkins
Since 2019, Rabbi Zohar Atkins has been reflecting on the Torah through an existential lens, in a weekly newsletter that is enjoyed, discussed, and shared at countless Shabbat tables each week. Gracefully merging classical commentaries with mystics, poets, and philosophers, each essay forms a unique and compelling study of the weekly Torah portion. Selected, sourced, indexed, and prepared for publication, they now appear in print for the very first time.
Translated from the Hebrew original, Chasidim Just Laugh presents Rav Froman in his own words; through a series of reflections, aphorisms, and teachings; along with accompanying commentary and stories about the Rabbi. Culled from classes, interviews, and newspaper columns, these teachings provide the reader with a highly-accessible but thought-provoking overview of Rav Froman’s essential thought. Read more »
What does a birthday mean? In this powerful work of everyday spirituality, legendary community educator Yehudis Fishman gives us her take on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s famous challenge to make our own birthdays more meaningful. Fishman takes us on a walk through a garden of years: one hundred essays, one for each of the first hundred years of a person’s life. Her work deals with the spiritual challenges of aging, our changing roles and relationships, and the spiritual numerology that hides behind the number. She draws on a very deep pool of learning, and she makes creative connections to Hasidic stories, Psalms (Tehilim), the sephirot, and to personal stories from her own life.
My Georgical Jubilism
The poems in this collection were written during an extended residency at Farfields Farm in 2016, and the poet’s experiences in Virginia form the emotional core of this work. How do we lose ourselves, seek ourselves, and find ourselves again? How does the search for identity expose us to new passions, new spirits, and new symbols? What does it mean to find God in nature, in community, or in words?
