Shalom, Moishe Lovelies!
First, I need to give a shout out to Moishe House Philly for helping with our book tour event a couple weeks ago, and I'm psyched to come to Seattle next weekend, where I hope to see the Seattle Moishe House folks.
Next, I wanted to reflect on an awesome thing that happened today. This morning I got up all excited because Sarah had organized an event where we make prayer flags to decorate our upstairs. The idea is to make visual representations of what we are praying for, as a way of creating a physical space that actually inspires prayer during our services. So I mentioned to Sarah that I would see her later, but then it turned out that she had also helped plan ANOTHER event that she was attending, which was a concert to benefit the local super progressive ritual bath (mikveh). And our friend Laura, who is an emerging leader at the house, was running the prayer flag event herself.
So I joined the prayer flag event, which was really fun, but then half way through, a bunch of amazing people started showing up, and I was reminded that we had a THIRD event going on in our community, Joe's bi-weekly radical Jewish thought class. So as I finished up gluing my fabric representation of people at a social justice rally, I got to listen as a new leader at our house helped folks explore their attitudes towards Torah and texts in building a Jewish social justice movement.
Anyway, as I made my prayer flag, I couldn't help but think about how this day represents some sort of answer to a prayer I had when we were just starting up, that we would have this kind of community where all these people are making things happen, so that I can just attend, enjoy myself, and be proud and supportive of all the holy work taking place.
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