Rabbi Jordi Schuster Battis

#Pulse, Sinai

Rabbi Jordi Schuster Battis

How do we at once throw our arms
around our children,
up in protest,
and open to our neighbors?
How do we speak in one breath,
“Our brothers’ blood cries out from the earth,”
“These guns must be stopped,”
“It is not Islam that is to blame,”
“To take one life

Shavuot: Choosing Our Tribe

Rabbi Jordi Schuster Battis

On Shavuot, every spring, we return to Sinai. We stand at the foot of the mountain enveloped in cloud and fire, the mountain hanging over our heads as if dangling from the Heavens themselves1, and we accept the Torah that was given to us when we assembled