Ba’nu Choshekh L’kadesh: Sanctifying darkness, seeding the light” by Rabbi David Seidenberg
Every year at my boy’s school there’s a Chanukah concert that includes rap songs and other talent.
December 11, 2015 https://www.tikkun.org/25884/Your search for seidenberg returned 14 results
Bal Taschit: What’s Wrong With the Jewish Law Against Destruction and Waste — and How to Fix It
Environmental transformation and Judaism.
August 24, 2020 https://www.tikkun.org/bal-taschit-jewish-law-against-destruction/The Third Promise
Can Judaism’s indigenous core help us rise above the damaging politics of our time?
June 25, 2020 https://www.tikkun.org/the-third-promise/Choosing Life by Rosh Hashanah 5790
David Seidenberg argues that the biggest existential threat to Israel isn’t Iran or human rights—it’s climate change.
October 16, 2019 https://www.tikkun.org/choosing-life-by-rosh-hashanah-5790/No Lives Matter
David Seidenberg looks at immigration, deportation, and related violence as Trumpian fantasy fulfillment.
August 20, 2019 https://www.tikkun.org/no-lives-matter/Rabbinic Letter in Support of Professor Michelle Alexander
Over 100 rabbis from across the liberal Jewish movements join together to applaud Professor Michelle Alexander for breaking the silence on Palestine.
February 7, 2019 https://www.tikkun.org/rabbinic-letter-in-support-of-professor-michelle-alexander/For the Sins–a contemporary version of atonement on Yom Kippur and all year round–and not just for Jews!
Rabbi Michael Lerner shares a beautiful, non-denominational prayer in the spirit of healing and transforming our world.
September 16, 2018 https://www.tikkun.org/for-the-sins-a-contemporary-version-of-atonement-on-yom-kippur-and-all-year-round/Tikkun Recommends
Jewish Renewal, a new movement that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century, has become one of the most significant developments in Judaism in the lives of thousands of American and Israeli Jews.
January 3, 2018 https://www.tikkun.org/tikkun-recommends-3/Winter 2017 Table of Contents
This quarterly issue of the magazine is available both online and in hard copy.
January 31, 2017 https://www.tikkun.org/winter-2017-table-of-contents/Toward an Eco-Theology of God’s Image
Letting go of self-centered and anthropocentric thinking—“we are the only images of God”—will help us reconnect to our authentic mystical roots as lovers of all beings.
July 1, 2015 https://www.tikkun.org/toward-an-eco-theology-by-way-of-tselem/Shavuot reflections plus Arthur Waskow on Commemorating Memorial Day
Shavuot wisdom from Arthur Waskow:
read, Sinai, & Speaking in Tongues:
Ten Notes on Celebrating Shavuot
Dear friends, Shavuot, the “Festival of Weeks,” comes this year from Saturday night May 23 through Monday eveningMay 25.
May 24, 2015 https://www.tikkun.org/shavuot-reflections-plus-arthur-waskow-on-commemorating-memorial-day/Planting the Seed of Eternity
Planting the Seed of Eternity: A Meditation on Rosh Hashanah & Our Planet
By Rabbi David Seidenberg
On Rosh Hashanah, after every time we hear the sound of the shofar, we
call out the words, Hayom harat olam.
Honoring the Animals With Whom We Share This Planet
Editor’s note: Thanks to Rabbi David Seidenberg for developing this ritual.
August 21, 2014 https://www.tikkun.org/honoring-the-animals-with-whom-we-share-this-planet/Conf Call with Sami Awad, plus Rabbi Seidernbeg on Jewish Ethics in GAZA, Noa Israeli singer, and Peter Beinart on the Myths about Gaza
ALERT: Conference Call with Sami Awad from Palestine this coming Monday, August 4 on the Israel/Gaza War. Sami Awad is the Executive Director of Holy Land Trust (HLT), a Palestinian non-profit organization which he founded in 1998 in Bethlehem.
July 30, 2014 https://www.tikkun.org/conf-call-with-sami-awad-plus-rabbi-seidernbeg-on-jewish-ethics-in-gaza-noa-isaeli-singer-and-her-comments-on-the-sturggle-and-peter-beinart-on-the-myths-about-gaza/