I want to make room for complexity and nuance, to be flexible enough to change direction to meet the needs of everyone I serve, to assist in the building of connection and relationship, and to help people shift perspective in ways that can open up unexplored depths.
Faryn Borella was raised on unceded Abenaki land, also known as Vermont. Growing up in a small-town synagogue that was Reconstructionist in spirit, Faryn discovered a love for leading prayer early in life, the seeds of which are now growing into a beautiful rabbinate.
In his inaugural speech at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association convention, Rabbi Seth Goldstein frames a vision of an American Jewish community guided by progressive values and radical egalitarianism.
People are radiating their compassionate awareness that we are all in this together -- all of us facing a deadly and invisible foe. Might we continue to be kinder with one another even after the threat of the virus is gone?