The Tikkun Olam Commission (TOC) invites your community to host a special Shabbat focused on reparations. This movement-wide initiative is a great opportunity to re-engage in the deep reckoning with racial harm and accountability that we began as a movement with the passage of the Reconstructionist Movement Reparations Resolution in January 2023. The goal of the Reparations Shabbaton is to facilitate both ongoing congregational study and action by identifying ways to join local reparations efforts.
Since Reconstructionist Judaism affirms a conception of God as a force, power or process — but not as a supernatural Being who can be addressed and can respond — what happens to the notion of sin? Rabbi Richard Hirsh argues that Reconstructionist theology makes it more, not less, important that we take on the responsibility for judgment, atonement, apology and repentance
