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Building a Personal Relationship with a Nonpersonal God
They envisioned you in an abundance of metaphors.
You are one in all of those images.
–Shir Hakavod (12th-century Germany)1https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/building-personal-relationship-nonpersonal-god
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 12:43pm
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Reconstructing Yiddishkeit
Among recent attempts to define “Jewish authenticity,” I find one characterization of its absence most intriguing. In an essay titled “The Imaginary Jew” that appeared in The Nation three years ago, literary critic William Deresiewicz analyzed the failure of contemporary Jewish fiction to produce hard-nosed explorations of the present, and noted its tendency to rely instead on whimsical exoticism. This, he claimed, could be contextualized as part of a larger social trend.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructing-yiddishkeit
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 1:05pm
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Reconstructionist Judaism: A Crash Course
If you advertise yourself as a Reconstructionist rabbi, people will inevitably corner you with “the” question: “Can you tell me—in a few words—what Reconstructionist Judaism is all about?”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructionist-judaism-crash-course
Posted on: 2016/05/30 - 2:21pm
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Posted on: 2017/05/19 - 12:00am
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Posted on: 2016/06/14 - 1:24pm
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Reconstructionist Torah Blessings
The traditional blessing before reading from the Torah contains the phrase אֲשֶׁר בָּֽחַר בָּֽנוּ מִכָּל הָעַמִּים (asher bakhar banu mikol ha’amim) — “Praised are you Lord our God, ruler of the Universe, who has chosen us from among all peoples by giving us the Torah.” The Reconstructionist version of that phrase is rewritten as אֲשֶׁר קֵרְבָנוּ לַעֲבוֹדָתוֹ (asher kervanu la’avodato), “who has drawn us to your service by giving us the Torah.” This change preserves the notion of Torah as our unique and prec
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/reconstructionist-blessing-torah-reading
Posted on: 2016/06/16 - 5:06pm
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Peoplehood Educational Gifts from Kaplan Center
Rabbi Jeffrey Schein has created a suite of educational resources on Jewish peoplehood, under the auspices of the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
The resources include:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/jewish-peoplehood-educational-resources
Posted on: 2016/06/28 - 10:41am
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Camp JRF Promo Video 2016
This video was produced for Camp JRF by Perlow Productions.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/camp-jrf
Posted on: 2016/07/22 - 2:07pm
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Yamim Nora'im
This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 2, in a chapter written by Rabbi Yael Ridberg. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/yamim-noraim
Posted on: 2016/08/02 - 2:41pm
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Sin and Forgiveness
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This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 2 — the section in question was written by Rabbi Yael Ridberg. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/sin-and-forgiveness
Posted on: 2016/08/08 - 4:50pm