As the writer of Proverbs 10:12 tells us, Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. As the numbers of hate crimes against African Americans, Asian-Americans, Jews of all races, and many others who are marginalized for various identities rise at alarmingly high rates, we become saturated with hateful […]
๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐: VAYAK’HEL Vayakhel, Wayyaqhel, VaYakhel, Va-Yakhel, Vayak’heil, or Vayaqhel (ืึทืึทึผืงึฐืึตืโ โ Hebrew for “and he assembled,” the first word in the parashah) is the 22nd weekly Torah portion (ืคึธึผืจึธืฉึธืืโ, parashah) in the annual cycle of Torah reading and the 10th in the Book of Exodus. The parashah tells of […]
๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ which was officially founded after a workshop series at Trinity Wall Street Church on The Black Presence in the Bible, though I had been teaching and posting about this information since about 2011/2012. I did not […]
Dark am I, AND lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon. Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My motherโs sons were angry with me and made me take care of the […]
The season of Shavuot (aka Pentecost) known as Feast of Weeks commemorates two powerful moments in human history: when the Children of Israel and those who sojourned with them received the Torah and when people from various tongues and tribes received the infilling of the Ruach HaโKodesh (Holy Spirit) which […]