Welcome to a liveable, breathable, creative Torah

(spoiler alert: it’s you)

“So, what’s your take on God?”

Her name was Joan and thirty years ago, she asked me that question like she wanted to know what’s for lunch. My answer at the time? “Ummm . . . I don’t think I trust millions of people agreeing on something so important”.

I now realize I should have added four words to my reponse to Joan: “So I’m a Jew”.

I’m a singer-songwriter, theatre/film artist, and now a rabbi. But before any of that, I’m a Jew. Decades after I’d left Hebrew school and my Bar Mitzvah in the rear-view, I stumbled upon a Judaism I’d never known existed. It was a homecoming. What I discovered was a tradition that is alive, relevant and dynamic. A tradition in which we don’t just read Torah, we are Torah, living and creating it in real time.

It is in this spirit that I offer you a doorway. A doorway to embodied music, story, and text that are both ancient and new in every moment. A doorway to yourself, and to a living Judaism.

You are the continuation of a never-ending song pouring from the mouth of existence. Come create Torah with us.