HeyJaredSurvival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness
Ancient Jewish wisdom for all by your local feminist trans nonbinary Kabbalistic rabbi, Jericho Vincent, founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger
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How to heal from s* assault? (opens the original)
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Content warning: essay on s* assaultWhen the princess Tamar is assaulted in the Hebrew Bible she puts ashes on her head and tears the ornamented gown she is wearing; she puts her hands on her head, and walks away, shrieking loudly as she goes. (Samuel 11:13).I want the calls to justice. I want the protests. I want the loud advocacy.But I also want the sounds of the grief. The anguish. Just the raw pain.WOE IS JANE DOE OF CORNELL. WOE IS ALL OF US WHO HAVE BEEN ASSAULTED.I want the three hundred
An Open Letter to Macklemore (opens the original)
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BiSiyata DiShmaya/with the help of the cosmosDear Macklemore,As a Jew and as a rabbi I am one of many Jews and many rabbis who are grateful to you for using your platform to call for Palestinian freedom while carefully distinguishing the actions of Israeli forces from the Jewish faith and the Jewish people.Please stay grounded in what you know to be true: it is not anti-Semitic to speak out for Palestinian freedom.In fact, it is the opposite.Two thousand years ago, Rosh laChachamim, Ch
9/11 and Rosh Hashana (opens the original)
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Twenty five years ago, I had two favorite two radio stations: 1010 WINS news and Hot97 Hiphop. One morning I woke up in my apartment in Coney Island and turned on the news. I got the sounds of Hot97 instead–people shouting, drama. I kept trying to adjust the radio but bizarrely the familiar cool calm rhythm of the news had vanished. My radio was broken in a very weird way. Bleary-eyed, I turned it off and went to brush my teeth.When I came back and tried the radio again, it became clear that the
Longevity influencer Bryan Johnson, life versus death, & Yom Kippur (opens the original)
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This week in the World’s Oldest Book Club—our group that’s been meeting weekly for over 2,000 years to read and discuss the Torah—we’ve got longevity influencer Bryan Johnson, life versus death, and Yom Kippur.In this week’s reading, Moses, one of the leaders of the people, is about to die. Moses helped lead the people out of slavery and into freedom. He helped guide them as they matured over decades of wandering the wilderness. And now he’s an elderly man who has reached the end of his road. Th
“The Shattering” Ry Van Der Hout (opens the original)
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I was deeply honored to add my voice to this stunning piece of art by Ry Van Der Hout now showing at the Spadina Museum in Toronto. In four-ish multi-sensory minutes, this sculpture explores a core Kabbalistic idea about breakage and resilience. Have a look (you’ll need sound on):Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p
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