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Ma’alot is a spiritual community in Atlanta, Georgia, transforming lives through music, nature, and Jewish wisdom.
We gather to learn, to sing, to hike, to eat, and to journey through holy moments in radical, fresh ways that touch our souls and cultivate communal belonging.
It is my daily honor to serve as husband to the founder of Ma’alot, Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe.
You can hear us discuss the nature of JEWISHNESS on TIGER TIME.
I am also a co-founder and facilitator of Netzah (נצח) [Commitment], the container for men’s work in our community.
Torah Posting
Spicy Biblical commentary
from the rabbi’s husband.
Published in 5784.
These are my own linear commentaries on the weekly Torah portions. They do not represent the theology of the rabbi to whom I am married or the community we serve. I simply have too much to say about the Torah, and I have somewhere to say it, so I can’t help myself.
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This externally imposed and fantastical role requires Jews to be this avatar of eternal, faithful Monotheism™ to play the Christian historical drama off of.
Do I trust the human authorities who made that ruling to represent THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE in court?
The connotations of the word “religion” are the primary problem, along with the mechanics of its associated examples.
It’s a manual for building, maintaining, operating, and living next to a nuclear power plant.
I kinda think the other shoe is yet to drop as far as the Jewish contribution to humankind.
The best way to understand “God” in the Hebrew Bible is as the main character of the story.
Much has been made by Jewish meditators about the fact that ”Shabbat” basically means “the sit.”
Judaism is like a smell of incense hanging in a cloud around me from the moment I was born.
Rituals are as human as smiling and crying, and they aren’t scary “New Age” innovations.
An explanation to myself and possibly others as to why I now call myself a Buddhist.
Whatever forces are behind it, the yearning for transformation seems to be hitting everywhere at once right now.
