![]() ![]() Which is to say that it is both a siddur like any other and also an attempt to imagine a fragment of another world. This siddur is at once a practical prayerbook and a piece of art. Traditional Shabbat Evening Study Passages.The Blessing for Liberation (Contemporary).The Blessing for Liberation (Historical).The Third Paragraph of the Shəma (Vayómreh).The Second Paragraph of the Shəma (Vəhayah im shamó’a).The First Paragraph of the Shəma (Və’ahavte).The Blessing for Evening (Contemporary).i want a Judaism that brings that world closer to beingĪnd if this isn’t possible, i want to know why Table of Contents i want a Judaism for the new century, the new millennium, the new world that is struggling mightily, even now, to be born, whose outlines we can only very faintly glean, but whose breath, on a still day, we can almost hear. ![]() i want a Judaism of new prayers, of new poems, of old prayers fitted with new forms. i want an arsonist Judaism that knows when the entire rotten system simply must be burned. i want a Judaism that’s down to make mischief, that knows how to genuinely heal. i want a Judaism that says what it means in plain terms instead of hiding behind vaguenesses for the illusion of consensus. i want a Judaism of messes, of imperfections, a Judaism for the messy ones, the bitter ones, the caustic ones. i want a Judaism of kitsch and camp and holy earnestness, of found things, of improvised things, of doing the best you can with what you have, because you can’t get your hands on the “right” stuff, so this will have to do. i want a rag-tag Judaism, a DIY Judaism, a Judaism of come-as-you-are. i want a rabbi who’s been evicted, a rabbi with convictions. i want a rabbi who’s been left to rot in the belly of the carceral state and made it out anyway. i want a rabbi who’s not from the professional-managerial class. i want a Judaism with a rabbi who wasn’t ordained by a staid professional school, but by the very people that rabbi serves, not because of book learning, but because that rabbi can speak with urgency and practicality to the very needs of those congregants’ lives. i want a decolonial Judaism, a Judaism for a free Palestine. i want a Judaism that Black Jews built from the ground up, that trans Jews built from the ground up, that disabled Jews built from the ground up, that converts built from the ground up, that everyone who was told they ~weren’t Jewish enough~ or ~weren’t Jewish the right way~ or who’s been pushed to the margins or out of Jewish life altogether got together and built from the ground up. i want a Judaism without cops at the door, a Judaism that *means it* when it says “let all who are hungry come in and eat”. ![]() i want a Judaism that understands how power works, that isn’t afraid to call shit out, and won’t settle for symbolic pablum. I want a Judaism for the broke and the broken, the mad (as in crazy) and the mad (as in furious at the injustices of the world). ![]()
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