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“Selah is the sweeping, shuddering blast of geo-philosophical winds from the monster’s breath that render highways as crossroads. It is a call to touch, to trace, to fall together, to read together, to speculate about other forms of care.” —Báyò Akómoláfé

Some words resist definition—selah is one. Appearing 74 times in the Old Testament, its meaning remains debated. “Selah is the moment when language fails,” writes Báyò Akómoláfé. A fitting title for work that refuses simplification. Order your copy: loom.ly/UcBMbTQ

New to our column Otiyot: Her Return and Reckonings: Two Poems by Rachel Kaufman. These poems belong to a manuscript that uses the language and myth of the Talmud. Read the full poems here: loom.ly/tfmB-Kg

This July, Laura Elkeslassy will unveil her debut studio album, Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile, uncovering the music and stories of Judeo-Arab divas from mid-century North Africa. Preorder here: loom.ly/dhhT1AY

Just one week away! Join us on April 30th for the virtual launch of The Torah in the Tarot with author Stav Appel and poet Ariana Reines. The conversation will be moderated by Ayin’s editorial director Eden Pearlstein. Register for the event: loom.ly/mTMKtOo

“The book you are holding in your hands is a sacred artifact, a bold gambit of reinvention, a dislocation of secret treasures from a charred reality, an illicit smuggling into a new world.” —Rabbi Tirzah Firestone

Now available! Purchase the audiobook version of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a paradigm-shifting work. Order now: loom.ly/l-HvIf4

Just two weeks away! Join us on April 30th for the virtual launch of The Torah in the Tarot with author Stav Appel and poet Ariana Reines.The conversation will be moderated by Ayin’s editorial director Eden Pearlstein. Register for the event: loom.ly/mTMKtOo

Read Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s GOLDEN THREADS this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! This middle-grade book (@AyinPress) follows the “world of Morocco’s craftspeople, inspiring generative conversations about art, labor, community, and technology.” ayinpress.org/golden-threads/

Join us in celebrating the launch of the Selah by Báyò Akómoláfé on Tuesday, May 5th at 7 p.m PT in San Francisco, CA with @longnow. Akómoláfé will be in conversation with Eden Pearlstein, cofounder of Ayin Press and editor of Selah. RSVP here: loom.ly/pRAcHFU

Welcome to the Báyò-verse. Selah is a profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection from one of our most evocative contemporary philosopher-poets. We are excited to share that you can now purchase the audiobook version of Selah. Order now: loom.ly/GQOPZg8

We’re excited to share that you can now purchase the audiobook version of A Flag of No Nation by Tom Haviv (@tmhaviv), a meditation on historical rupture and political imagination that traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century. loom.ly/n2aSrqs

Join us in celebrating the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age at Harvard Divinity School on Monday, April 20th at 5:15 p.m. ET. Register for the event: loom.ly/tKMP340

We’re very proud that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger (@cannupahanska) has won the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards (@penamerica) last week. Watch the awards ceremony: loom.ly/DLgKwg4

Join us on April 23rd at 6-8 p.m MT (8-10 p.m EDT) to celebrate the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age at @NaropaU. Register: loom.ly/u1unj8Q

Rachel Kaufman’s review of PROTOCOLS: An Erasure by Daniela Naomi Molnar (@daniela_naomi_molnar) was just published in the Harvard Review (@harvardreview). Read it here: harvardreview.org/book-review/pr… Order the book: shop.ayinpress.org/products/proto…

We’re still buzzing from last week’s announcement that Cannupa Hanska Luger’s SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Guide won the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards. Watch the awards ceremony: loom.ly/DLgKwg4

“Finnegan’s Awakening,” a paradigm-shifting excerpt from the recently released 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, should be “read with a liquid mind.” Read the full excerpt in the Teiku column: loom.ly/nn6UzdE

We’re so thrilled that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards this week!

We are so honored to share that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at last night’s 62nd PEN America Literary Awards. Read the winners announcement and watch the awards ceremony: loom.ly/DLgKwg4