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Arthur Waskow
Rabbi Arthur Waskow is the director of The Shalom Center. In 2013, Rabbi Waskow received T’ruah’s first Lifetime Achievement Award as a “Human Rights Hero.” His chapter, “Jewish Environmental Ethics: Adam and Adamah,” appears in Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (Dorff & Crane, eds.; Oxford Univ. Press, 2013). Rabbi Waskow is the author of 22 books including Godwrestling, Seasons of Our Joy (JPS, 2012), and Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life. With Sister Joan Chittister and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisht he co-authored The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and with with Rabbi Phyllis Berman wrote Freedom Journeys: Exodus & Wilderness Across Millennia (Jewish Lts, 2011). He edited Torah of the Earth (two volumes, eco-Jewish thought from earliest Torah to our own generation). These pioneering books on eco-Judaism are available at discount from “Shouk Shalom,” The Shalom center's online bookstore.
Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | During the Aliyot | Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System | Ecotastrophes | Epidemics & Pandemics | Erev Shabbat | Extracanonical Megillot | Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry | Modern Miscellany | Motsei Shabbat | Mourning | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Seder Leil Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Shavuot | Sukkot | Symbolic Foods | Taanit Esther Readings | the Shema | the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat) | Tishah b'Av Readings | Torah Study | Yeshayah (Isaiah) | Yom Kippur | Yom Kippur Readings | Ḳaddish | Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Erev Pesaḥ | Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ | Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah | Parashat b'Shalaḥ | Parashat Noaḥ | Shulḥan Orekh | Yom haḲeshet (27 Iyyar) Readings | Yom haḲeshet (Day of the Rainbow, 27 Iyyar) | Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150) | 7th Day of Pesaḥ | Yom haMabul (Day of the Flood, 17 Iyyar, Lev ba-Omer) | 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th) | 🌐 Earth Day (22 April) | Psalms 148
Abrahamic | activism | activist | Aleph | Aliyah | American Jewry of the United States | anti-fascist Judaism | anti-Kahanist | Azazel | blessings | Bnei Yisrael and Yishmael | candle lighting | communal | community organizing | devotional interpretation | Divine Feminine | eco-conscious | ecumenical prayers | English vernacular prayer | entering | four worlds | global climate change | global warming | haggadah supplements | Hebrew translation | hymns of creation | inaugurations | interbreathing | interconnectedness | interpretation as prayer | interpretive translation | Isaiah | Israeli-Jewish settler violence | Israelis and Palestinians | Jewish Renewal | kindling | liberation | Maggidut | Memorial prayers | Midrashic interpretation | Miriam | MLK | neo-lurianic | North America | Northampton | paraliturgical elohai neshamah | Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish | paraliturgical shema | participatory | peace | Philadelphia | Pnai Ohr | Pnai Or | Prayers as poems | prophetic revelation | Rainbow Day | recipes | reconstructing Judaism | Renewal | RRC | social justice | State v. Chauvin | symbolic foods | talmud torah | Temple Mount | United States | water protectors | Yah Bishvat | ecoḥasid | green ḥevrah | Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet | paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai | אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | ברית brit | ברכות brakhot | הבדלות havdalot | הללו־יה hallelu-yah | והיה אם שמע v'haya im shemo'a | זמירות zemirot | חרוסת ḥaroset | ירושלם Jerusalem | כוונות kavvanot | ל״ג בעומר lag baomer | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | משיח Moshiaḥ | סגולות segulot | פסוקי דזמרה pesuqei dezimrah | פרשת נח Parashat Noaḥ | קדיש דרבנן Ḳaddish D'Rabanan | קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish | שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu | שירת הים Shirat haYam | שמע shemaŋ | תחינות teḥinot | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | Isaiah 57 | 58th century A.M. | Isaiah 58 | 59th Presidential Inauguration | Deuteronomy 6:4 | Psalms 148 | Deuteronomy 11:13-21 | Numbers 15:37-41 | 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 2019 Israeli legislative election | 2020 coronavirus pandemic | 2020 United States racial reckoning | September 2020 Western United States wildfires
Sarah Barasch-Hagans | Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Phyllis Berman | Leila Gal Berner | Tamara Cohen | Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality | Marcia Falk | Jack Kessler (trōpification) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | the Mesorah (TaNaKh) | Mishkan Shalom | Neohasid·org | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi | David Seidenberg | the Shalom Center | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
💬 Haftarah Reading for Yom Kippur morning (Isaiah 57:14-58:14), a slightly midrashic translation by Arthur O. Waskow
Contributed by Arthur Waskow | the Shalom Center | Yeshayahu ben Amōts | ❧
As we move not just toward a new “year” (shanah) but toward a moment when repetition (sheni) becomes transformation (shinui), I hope we will remember the roots of Jewish renewal in the upheavals of the 1960s as well as the upheavals of the 1760s, the roots of Judaism in the great “political” speeches of the Prophets, and the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who said that in a great civil rights march his legs were praying, and who argued again and again that “spirituality” and “politics” cannot be severed. As Heschel also said, “Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive.” . . .
