Tikva Hecht and Mildred Faintly, Ben Yehuda Press authors, are in convo with poet Joy Ladin, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. They will talk about writing, women's contribution to spiritual traditions, and read from their work. 2/3
Oh wow. Wowwwww. I would so enjoy a Selichot conversation about teshuvah and The Good Place. But I fear most of my kahal is nowhere near as geeky as I am on that front. ;)
We tried to interweave the two. There are some Ashkenazi melodies that I think most of my kahal needs -- they kindle the soul in certain familiar ways. And... oh man I am loving Sephardic selichot as I experience it thanks to these two congregants and friends. I want both/and!
One of those was also when we had the best selichot discussion ever - topic “Did Darth Vader complete t’shuvah?”
A couple of times we’ve had like 10 pm selichot, much more my speed
ahahaha I feel that! I have 2 Sefardic congregants who've been doing 5:30am Selichot all Elul on Zoom. I went a couple of times, and it was amazing, but omg is that not my finest hour.
to get the two topmost Torahs out, which is always kind of comical.) And we wrote down what we need to release. Which always moves me. So yeah. Pretty good selichot, all in all. (3/3)
Our selichot service is at 6 am tomorrow and I can’t even begin to express how much I am not going 😴