Rabbi Lindsey Healey- Pollack – Finding the Sacred in the Everyday

The Emergent Torah

Creative spirituality from the roots up

What is emergence?

Emergence is the idea that forms and systems come into being through interaction and relationships.

What is Torah?

Torah is a Hebrew word that means “teaching.”

Torah sometimes refers specifically to first five books of the Hebrew Bible. In Jewish tradition, Torah has a more expansive meaning. Torah can be thought of as the entire body of wisdom transmitted to us, or received by us, from the Divine or Source of Life, as well as our interactions with that wisdom.

It is an element of Jewish practice that we immerse ourselves in Torah – we read it, study it, engage with it, challenge it and wrestle with it. By doing so, we actually become co-creators of Torah and allow new meanings and insights to emerge.

A little of the Torah that has emerged through me….

Poetry

Why I was late

I go in with a list, but the late summer harvest says otherwise

Reeds

“We are the watchers along the shores/
guarding these waters, and those who pass through them”

Mother Blessings

Gather together and hear, oh daughters
Come listen to the wisdom of your Mothers:

Torah

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