Rabbi, teacher, parent, eternal student. Founder at https://t.co/ZwuRm9RUO7. Rabbi at @TKAThornhill. PhD Student at McMaster Univ. Host of Seven Minute Torah podcast
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Jul 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Can Reform Jews be Shomer Shabbat? I say yes, but it looks different than in Orthodoxy. 🧵
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Shomer Shabbat - "keeping Shabbat" - refers to the idea that we're supposed to refrain from work on Shabbat. It's the part of Shabbat practice many liberal Jews struggle with. (We're better at rituals like prayer & lighting candles, less good at refraining from work.) 2/6
Jun 9, 2022 • 34 tweets • 8 min read
Jewish views of God that aren't the "Old Man in the Sky." A LOOONG 🧵
Lots of people say to me "I don't believe in God." And they are surprised to hear that I, a rabbi, also don't believe in the God they don't believe in. And NEITHER do many of Judaism's greatest thinkers. 1/30
The prayerbook makes a lot of claims: God created the world, wrote the Torah, parted Red Sea, lifts the fallen & heals the sick. What if you don't believe those things, but you care abt Judaism? What if you believe in something - but not THAT God? You're in good company. 2/
