Porous. Granular.
Daroma 5784 Spring Practice Season — Stillness, Ancestry, Brutality, and the First Crossing
Daroma’s Spring 5784 season with Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal unfolded between Pesach and Shavuot as a practice-centered container of stillness, ancestry, and contemplative Jewish practice. Through silence, niggun, and teachings drawn from Hasidic and mystical sources, participants explored trauma, memory, creativity, and covenant in the shadow of 10/7, holding complexity without rushing to resolve it.
Tending to the Ashkenazi Jewish Ancestral Pain-Body on Yom Hashoah 5783
Community Chanting, Prayer, and Listening-Sharing on Holocaust Memorial Day 5783, Tuesday 4/18/2023 7pm ET, Online
Barur
Barur — “clear,” “evident,” or “refined” in Hebrew — traces a personal story of inheritance, loss, and return. Beginning with a forgotten set of candlesticks gifted to the author’s mother during the intifada, it unfolds into a meditation on memory, faith, and reclamation—between religious and secular, Israel and diaspora, ancestral and emergent. Through the intertwined threads of trauma, prayer, and deep time, the essay asks what it means to awaken to our lineage that is ever renewed.