Ya'aleh: Holiday Torah for Organizers and Optimists

In “Ya’aleh VeYavo,” the prayer recited on certain Jewish holidays, we ask God to judge us favorably. But there’s a famous saying: pray like everything depends on God, work like everything depends on us. The Jewish calendar is full of reminders about how we can partner with God to move us from the world as it is to the world as it should be. Now more than ever, we need sustenance to keep going.

Hi. I’m an organizer, educator, and rabbi who is passionate about nurturing spiritually rooted and socially engaged communities.

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