Building New Identities, Business & Education, Uncategorized, Wisdom Daily News / 24 Mar 2023

Where Everything New Is Old Again

“Old” connections create new paradigms

Uncategorized, Wisdom For Builders / 21 Mar 2023

Non-Linear Growth

Growth does not have to be immediate and exponential for things to have value…

This Week In Wisdom, Wisdom For Builders / 16 Mar 2023

The Adjacent Possible

Life has to be lived forward but can only be understood backward

Uncategorized, Wisdom For Builders / 16 Mar 2023

Ready… Set… Set…  

It took G-d a mere week to create the world, but how often do we describe the eternity of preparation that must have preceded this watershed moment? Before G-d turned the light switch on, the infinite possibilities of what could be resided in an amaranthine packet of latent potential. None of it existed until G-d took that brave leap allowing the implicit to coalesce into the explicit. Hebrew has the same root for the word Universe (Olam) and Unknown (Alum). The margin between the abyss and genesis is both infinite and imperceptible. Perhaps this is also true, albeit in far more humble dimensions, for humans engaged in sacred work. Last year I finally launched The Amen Institute – an organization that brings art and Torah into conversation with one another. We have 4 programs that engage thousands of Jews around the world to achieve this in our: Rabbinic-Artist Fellowship High School Mentorship Program Weekly Art Circle Gatherings Educational Music Resources After spending a year and a half having conversations with artists and strategizing our approach, I witnessed my countless all-nighters materialize into an international center of Jewish culture. It felt like an eternity had preceded this landmark moment as I fine-tuned my vision and methodically made my pitch to prospective stakeholders – inviting artists, rabbis, teachers, synagogues, and funders to dream with me. We anticipated an explosive inventiveness that would result when Torah scholars are pushed to see new perspectives on the texts with which they were so familiar when the probing mind of a creative soul could animate their imaginations through the medium of art.  Excitement is an infectious creature. As our tent widened and more keen individuals were introduced to our world, their enthusiasm egged me on and inspired me to think even more expansively. The possibilities kept…

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Spirituality & Faith / 14 Mar 2023

Sisterhood Goals in the Torah

Here’s to an enlightening Women’s History Month for us all!