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Also, hey, follow us at Bluesky (username: bayit) because we're more active over there these days!

New from @DrShariEllen comes this prayer/poem for #Yizkor this year. It begins: "When a group of people die in violence Do their neshamot stay together?..." Click through to read the whole thing and thoughts on how one might use it: yourbayit.org/together/

New on Velveteen Rabbi: a post about this new #book of #HighHoliday #art, inspired by the #Torah and #Haftara readings for the #DaysOfAwe. Read more & support our @Kickstarter - here: velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2024/06/a… ( cc @MagneticShul and @yourbayit)

Are you curious about the artists included in the Visual #Mahzor Project? We’re delighted to be able to share a list of those contributing -- click through to this @Kickstarter update to learn more! kickstarter.com/projects/bayit… #DaysOfAwe #art #books

Amazing news: our @Kickstarter for the Visual Mahzor is halfway funded! And now there's a video that explores more of what this book aims to do -- and shares some art! Click through to learn more and support this awesome project for those awesome days: kickstarter.com/projects/bayit…

#Shavuot is a festival of first fruits. Help us bring an amazing new book to fruition – a collection of contemporary art arising out of the Torah and Haftarah readings for the High Holidays! Click through to read all about it & support our Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/bayit…

As we prepare to receive Torah anew at Sinai, join us in bringing amazing new visual Torah into the world – this volume of contemporary art arising out of the Torah & Haftarah readings for the Days of Awe:kickstarter.com/projects/bayit…

The deadline for submitting #art relating to the #Torah and #Haftarah readings for the #DaysOfAwe / #HighHolidays / #RoshHashanah and #YomKippur is May 15 - here's the RFP with details: docs.google.com/document/d/1v6… Please share your art with us - we want to share it with the world!

Thank you, @jaymichaelson, for featuring our #Pesach offering This Broken Matzah (among others!) in your article for the @jdforward today: forward.com/culture/602335…

Featuring work by Trisha Arlin, @velveteenrabbi, @DaraLithwick, @DavidEvanMarkus, @SteveSilbert, @Zenspirations, @Shalomrav18, and R. Sonja Keren Pilz.

New on Builders Blog: This Broken Matzah - a collaborative collection of new liturgy, poetry, & art for #Pesach2024. Available both as downloadable PDf and as slides suitable for screenshare. yourbayit.org/pesach2024/

All Four (Are One), a prayer-poem for Passover by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (@yourbayit Bayit: Building Jewish, 2024) opensiddur.org/prayers/luniso…

@devon_spier @velveteenrabbi We are so glad the book was useful and meaningful for someone -- that's why we do what we do! <3

Bayit’s Liturgical Arts Working Group is collaborating on a new offering for #Pesach2024, which we hope to release on 4/8. Here’s one piece from that collection by @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social. Click through for poem & and footnotes. More coming soon. yourbayit.org/all-four-are-o…

@devon_spier Yes she is and we adore her and her work (and you and yours!)

New on Builders Blog: a post about #Middot #Meditations, an innovative approach to self-reflection using the language of Mussar, Jewish virtue-based ethics, created by @SteveSilbert: yourbayit.org/middot-meditat…

New on Builders Blog: a video conversation between @SallyWGrotta , author of Daughters Of Eve, and Judith Sarah Schmidt, author of the forthcoming Blessing from Broken -- two very different books rooted in Torah, new this year from Bayit! yourbayit.org/conversation/

If you're curious about why my new book "Daughters of Eve" is making a stir among reviewers, download a free chapter here: sallywienergrotta.com/free-sample-ch… Then, after you read the chapter, buy the book for $18 here: amazon.com/Daughters-Eve-… Please RT #feminism #Judaism @yourbayit

#Pesach is on the horizon. It's not too early to think about enlivening your #seder table and the #Omer journey to follow! Click through to learn more about hex tiles, card decks, and books by @SteveSilbert, @DrShariEllen, & Mary Walter: yourbayit.org/pesach/