HOLIDAY SOURCE SHEETS

For selected holidays, we will compile a number of sources to help facilitate a meaningful and spiritual experience.

Tu B'Shvat 5784

Gwyneth N.A. Hernandez, Gashmius Staff

The modern practice of planting trees in Eretz Yisrael for Tu B'Shvat has played a large role in the historical and ongoing displacement of Palestinian people. However, there is so much more to Tu B’Shvat than this deceptively violent practice! Let’s explore one alternative understanding of this holiday that shifts the focus from planting trees to growing our own spiritualities.

Sources from:

Rav Tzvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov
Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
Taya Amit
Gloria Anzaldúa
Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners & Beth Richie

Hanukkah 5784

The Chanukkah Light Unseen: Dedicating Ourselves to the Unwritten, Miraculous Future is an essay by Risa Dunbar which was originally published in the All That’s Left 2023 Chanukkah Reader.

Source: Rav Tzadok HaKohen Rabinowitz of Lublin

Pesach 5783

The Offering Beyond Space and Time:

An essay by Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman that unpacks a previously untranslated teaching by the Sfat Emet, Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter (1847-1905).

Hanukkah 5783

Sources from:

- Levi Yitshak of Berditchev

- Rabbi Kohenet Jill Hammer

- Emmanuel Levinas

ADDITIONAL SOURCE SHEETS

Tasting Torah

Jonah Mac Gelfand, Gashmius Editor

In Biblical times, the main way that people interacted with the Divine was by bringing sacrifices to the Temple. But what do we do when the Temple is no longer an option? What would it mean to reconceptualize our eating as a replacement for sacrifices?

HOLIDAY SOURCE SHEETS

Tu B'Shvat 5784

Gwyneth N.A. Hernandez, Gashmius Staff

Hanukkah 5784

Pesach 5783

Hanukkah 5783

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