Borrowing from the Havdalah ritual, this prayer can help all parents create a sense of separation between the workday — wherever that happens physically — from the work of raising children. This ritual offers, for at least a moment, a liminal space to pause.
Joel Hecker, Ph.D., professor of Jewish mysticism at RRC, shares 10 aspects of luminosity outlined in kabbalistic literature. In this teaching on mysticism, he names different manifestations of the Divine presence.
This gathering of resources explains RRC’s open policy on rabbis with non-Jewish partners, placing within it the context of trends in contemporary Jewish and spiritual life.
Rabbi Elliot Kukla explores how trauma and disability represent essential aspects of being human.
February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month. This blessing honors the people and communities making Jewish life and experience more accessible and embracing.
Legal scholars and activists Gila Stopler and Yofi Tirosh explain threats posed by the new governing coalition to Israeli democracy, urging listeners abroad not only to care, but to engage.
In honor of Evolve’s five-year anniversary, Rabbi Alex Weissman tackles the problematic theme in Jewish tradition of equating light with goodness and dark with evil.
Rabbi Deborah Waxman defends pluralism and democracy, and opposes ethnonationalism, in Israel, the United States and everywhere.
February is Jewish Disability, Awareness and Inclusion Month. Revisit this in-depth piece that details the many ways Reconstructionist communities practice inclusion.
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
