Conversation with Rabbi Nate DeGroot, director of The Shalom Center, carrying forth the prophetic legacy of the organization’s founder, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, by helping to steward and seed an emergent Jewish sacred justice.
Dear Ones,
Tonight we begin the moon of walking, Sivan, according to the Hebrew calendar. The times of poli-crisis are rampant globally. More than ever, we are called to walk our talk. To be coherent in thought, speech, and action. Easier said than done.
I find myself in the beautiful mountains of Costa Rica, where I’m beginning to weave my nest. Actually, the building team is beginning to dig the first foundations of what will be my humble abode, as I write this.
So we walk.
It looks like an online course - 5 sessions - of Sanctuary for the Apocalypse is on the stars for August 2026. Stay posted, I will let you know as soon as I have the dates. I will be traveling at the end of July to my legendary mom’s 90th birthday in NYC, where I’m open to invitations for interactive concerts and sacred playshops. I’m also in the process of co-creating a Love the Stranger multiethnic/racial/faith healing gathering in Chicago, and dreaming of a similar gathering in Costa Rica for December.
So we walk.
Through the mud, through the rocks, through the doubts, despite world and local turbulence. We walk through the storm, the uncertainty, the cancellations, the loneliness.
Making room for the trickster, protecting joy with our life, increasing our body movement, with football, ping pong, dancing, Zumba, or however we can.
May we meet soon…