Rabbinic Pastor/Cantor Lisa L. Levine

Headshot of Cantor Lisa Levine wearing a blue prayer shawl and holding a small drum

Rabbinic Pastor/Cantor Lisa L. Levine (“The Yoga Cantor,” RYT) (she/her) is a well-known composer, author, poet and recording artist. She received her ordination from HUC-JIR DFSSM and received Ordination as Rabbinic Pastor through Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal in 2018. Lisa has recently published her first collection of poems Heart of Light: Poems of Longing Loss and Life with artwork by Julie Silver. She teaches Yoga Shalom at Home, freelances as a worship artist, and serves as artist-in-residence for Temple Rodeph Torah in Marlboro, N.J. Learn more at cantorlisalevine.com.

 

Listening for the Voice of Homelessness

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Bruce Kadden

While most readers of the Torah consider Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac as his most troubling deed, his treatment of his firstborn son, Ishmael and Ishmael’s mother, Hagar, is also deeply disturbing. How can a father send his child away—to almost certain death—in the wilderness?