In that moment, all I could do was be. I couldn't talk or text or think. I became the Universe. The Universe was 5'11" long and shaped like me. I was all there was. I was me being ill. And me being the Universe. And the Universe experiencing being ill. I was a complete unity of body and soul, individual and whole, supine on grey carpet under florescent lights.
Read MoreBlossom of the Universe (Rosh Hashanah 5780)
Together we can be a refugium – protectors of life. We can bring all our distinctiveness – our skills, our smarts, our songs – whatever the Tree of Life planted in us. Bring all of that to this community and to the other communities in which we are rooted around the world. We can share this vision, this consciousness, this love and longing at the root level, the way trees speak over distance through the mycelial network. We will be the protectors of people, places and creatures in need through the hard times, and the restorers and renewers of the landscape on the other side of it.
Read MoreDisloyalty – Northern California Public Media Interview
”One local spiritual leader, Reb Irwin Keller, of Ner Shalom in Cotati, responded to the president's comments with a poem, which he chanted in our studios…”
Read MoreOath of Disloyalty
I am not loyal to a political party.
Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings.
Ad Anah – The Heavens Weep and Are Not Answered
Years have worn on. When will You hear us – and
Zodiac's prayers, and angels on high?