Ariel Tovlev
To Believe or Not To Believe... an Eternal Question
Rosh Hashanah sermon about belief & disbelief in God
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Ariel Tovlev
6 days ago7 min
The Power of Witnessing
A Rosh Hashanah sermon on the power of showing up in community and bearing witness to each other's pain
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Ariel Tovlev
Aug 301 min
Zichronot: Our Memories
our memories the memories we have of others are faulty things inconsistent, disjointed, warped by emotion which ones carry on? which are...
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Ariel Tovlev
May 291 min
Empathy
"the heart is never so open / as when it is broken / let it break, let it break"
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Ariel Tovlev
Mar 297 min
Is Our Desire to Create "Safe Spaces" Supporting Segregation? A Reflection on How Communities Protect Trans Children but Avoid Trans Adults
It is not enough to protect trans kids if we are not empowering and honoring trans adults. Much of the transgender rights movement has...
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Ariel Tovlev
Feb 1622 min
On Race, Diversity, and being B'tzelem Elohim
Stories from my own life on diversity which have taught me about ignorance and efforts to move past it.
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Ariel Tovlev
Jan 319 min
Humility: the Middah of Anavah
In preparing to apply for rabbinical school, I was meeting regularly with my rabbi. In one of our meetings he prepped me through a mock...
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Ariel Tovlev
Jan 96 min
In Support of a Ceasefire
An explanation of why I am a Zionist who supports a ceasefire in Palestine.
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Ariel Tovlev
Dec 8, 20231 min
Lessons in Grief Taught by a Teenager
A couple years ago, one of my professors died from an illness we all hoped she’d recover from. The whole college was in mourning over...
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Ariel Tovlev
Oct 28, 20231 min
Ruach: a Prayer for Creation
Ruach wind, spirit, the invisible force felt but not seen falling leaves surround me thank you God for the wonder of creation
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Ariel Tovlev
Oct 25, 20231 min
The Only Red Tree: a Poem
the weather has turned the sun takes its time to rise slowly slinking into position in the sky not quite reaching the top tenderly...
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Ariel Tovlev
Oct 15, 20231 min
The One Who Makes Peace: a Prayer
The One Who Makes Peace blessing bread bought from the supermarket our blessing says, thank you God for bringing forth bread from the...
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Ariel Tovlev
Apr 12, 20231 min
Teach me
God of time and space, teach me the patience of a planet steady in orbit the silent wisdom of stone the resilience of mountains eroding...
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Ariel Tovlev
Sep 16, 20218 min
When Forgiveness is Not Teshuvah
On Yom Kippur, we ask for forgiveness from those we have wronged, and we grant forgiveness to those who have wronged us. We consider this...
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Ariel Tovlev
Mar 8, 20212 min
Intersectional International Women's Day
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! I love this Miriam's cup I made with Congregation Or Ami 's family education program Menschify! We all...
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Ariel Tovlev
Jan 27, 20211 min
Ha'aretz (The Land)
השקדיות העייפות פותחות פריחותן באי רצון האביב מעיר אותן עם רעד נראה לי כמו הארץ אבל איזה ארץ היא הארץ שלי? אין לי כלום, שככתוב: לה׳ הארץ...
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Ariel Tovlev
Nov 19, 20203 min
A Year After: Remembering the Tree of Life Massacre
It has been a year now since the antisemitic massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. I remember exactly where I was when I...
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Ariel Tovlev
Sep 19, 20202 min
Mussar Musings for a New Year
Shanah tovah umetukah lekulam! A good and sweet new year for everyone. When I was younger, I thought of teshuva in the traditional sense...
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Ariel Tovlev
Aug 15, 20205 min
Trans Love is Miraculous
Anyone who has been in love knows how otherworldly the feeling is: the out-of-body feeling of weightlessness, the in-the-body feeling of...
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Ariel Tovlev
Jun 14, 20204 min
Anti-Trans Legislation
The government's attempt to roll back trans healthcare protections is personal to me. Between 2014-2015, I spent an entire year trying to...
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