In a new post at his blog, "Toto", one of my favorite Jewish writers, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, post provocatvely (as usual) that "Judaism is dying." He runs down what he sees as the failures of the Rabbinic, Zionist, Humanistic, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Humanistic, Jewish Renewal, and Orthodox Movements.
Carly Sachs, who has been in the conversations leading up to the formation of the Tiferet Artists Collective, has a good essay draft on her blog on "Life as a Jewish Writer or a Writerly Jew."
Looking at a page in a book referencing kabbalah (though not directly about it) on Wednesday, I read the Hebrew text on a page, trying to figure out what it was. I eventually recalled that the text was from the Sefer Yetzirah". The sounds of the text were quite appealing.
Yishai suggested that I read Anne Bogart's A Director Prepares. These closing paragraphs stood out for me with respect to the beginning of our project:
A brief dream while I dozed at a Berkeley bookstore this afternoon (it had been too short a night, since I was up late getting this site running, then woke up after too few hours to feed the cats and parrots and to call my mother on her birthday) in the midst of leafing through Buber's Between Man and Man:
Submitted by Joseph Zitt on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 06:51
This is the beginning of the website for the Tiferet Artists Collective. We're a group of artists in various realms, looking forward to what happens when our lives and work intersect at the nexus of Judaism, the Arts, and Community.
