Jewishness is like a big rucksack that our people have been carrying around for 5000 years. Inside it there are all sorts of things that are part of our peoplehood, our culture, our practices… Some of the things are really close to the surface. Those are the things that the people who came most recently before us found most useful for navigating their world. Some of us feel a deep connection with those things. Some of us need to look a little deeper into the sack to find the things that connect most deeply to us.

As I continue exploring the collective rucksack of my people’s culture, I have been developing a series of rituals that are rooted in this inheritance and designed to speak to the questions I find myself wrestling with as I navigate the world I find myself in today