Kesher Talk

Another anniversary. Oops! While I was busy with other things, my 2nd year blog anniversary came and went. I joined Kesher Talk, already a fairly respected Jewish blog, on August 9, 2002, which also happened to be the first day of Ellul. So in the Hebrew calendar I am only one day late, since this year Ellul began yesterday.

In that first post I wrote about why I started blogging, going to minyan that morning, and the significance of Ellul.

Here's what I wrote on my 1st anniversary last summer. I summed up the momentous year just past, with lots of links to previous posts which I felt were highlights of the first year.

Here's what I wrote on the first of Ellul last year. The wonderful explication of Psalm 27 has moved to a different URL. I still highly recommend it. According to this spiritual exercise using Psalm 27 as a guide, the theme of Week One is Responsibility.

Since we're on the subject of daily davening, Naomi Chana of the wonderful blog Baraita is writing a series of reflections on the experience of daily davening and her interactions with the prayers. Naomi's writing is always a heady mix of - as she puts it - "academic, religious, and pop-cultural esoterica since 2001. With citations." And funny too. So if you are curious about what one raised-Reform mixed-religious-heritage young feminist post-modern humanities professor - who likes to sing, leyn, study Talmud, and whodavens in local shuls of all denominations - thinks about our traditional liturgy, dive in.

PS In this very funny post from last fall Naomi describes herself as a "feminist mitnagid."

posted by Judith @ 8/19/2004 09:23:45 AM