HaNefesh Issue #8 (It’s our Brit Milah Issue)
This is our 8th issue of the HaNefesh and Jew By You Newsletters. It’s awesome to see how far we’ve come in the past two months. We have celebrated Shabbat, enjoyed Torah study, and sang out during Havdalah. We have mourned with the Fidel family and wish Mazal Tov to Ferne Michaelson and Ron Glassman […]
Do Not Separate Yourself from Your Community
In Pirkei Avot, Hillel teaches us, “Do not separate yourself from the community.” Yet here we are in the middle of a pandemic where we are being told to separate ourselves. How do we separate ourselves without really separating ourselves? How do we keep our community together during this unprecedented time? We have choices. We […]
Have a Community? Good to Have a Brit!
A group of people with shared values and vision come together to create a community. This is HaNefesh. We are a group of people with the shared values of creating an open and safe Jewish community where all can come, explore and express their Judaism without fear of unwarranted criticism or rebuke. We created this […]
Lettuce Know
July 9, 2020 | 17 Tamuz 5780 know…. I had a great conversation this week about how to be a part of HaNefesh community. (quick grammar note: Ha=The, Nefesh=Soul. If I say, THE HaNefesh Community, I am saying, the THE soul community and that just sounds odd to my Hebrew ear. But maybe I should get […]
Yes, AND…
Yes, AND… We’ve talked about how you can support HaNefesh financially, now let’s talk about how you and HaNefesh can work together to build our Jewish community. I’ve been asked if we are going to have different committees and opportunities for HaNefesh. My answer has been, yes AND… The work of HaNefesh cannot be done by one or two people alone. HaNefesh hopes to […]
Come Be A Disrupter with HaNefesh
Come Be A Disrupter With HaNefesh! Amy Asin taught us at the URJ Biennial in December that if we only seek to improve or transform what synagogues do, then they will not exist. If we want Judaism to exist tomorrow, we have to disrupt the system as we know it. HaNefesh is disrupting the synagogue […]
