The U.S. Badly Needs Repentance and Transformation

 

The U.S. Badly Needs Repentance and Transformation You DO NOT have to be Jewish to get a lot out of our Tikkun (healing and transformation) Jewish High Holiday Celebrations (on Zoom). Join us and Bill McKibben, Deena Metzger, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, and Shaul Magid.   Please Register Now Rabbi Lerner creates a space that is welcoming and supportive, but also challenging us to look deeply at our own lives, the reality of living and accommodating ourselves to the daily inequalities that benefit some and disadvantage others. Lerner does not accept the notion that all white people or men are “privileged” or white people or men should be ashamed of ourselves. The cunning of contemporary capitalism is the way it gets us to feel powerless and guilty. Our job is to empower ourselves, not just for the election of 2020 but for the struggles ahead in the next 3 decades as we try to overcome the ongoing destruction of the life support system of Earth.  And that will require a cross-race and cross-class alliance to dismantle the selfishness and materialism inherent in global capitalism.  This is NOT just a matter of internal transformation. It requires a radical transformation of our societal institutions. In Rabbi Lerner’s new book Revolutionary Love: a Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World (University of California Press) he presents a detailed strategy for the coming decades. But the first step is to overcome all the internalized messages that tell us that fundamental change is just sweet idealism but totally unrealistic. Our High Holiday services and the transformation workbook you get when you register are part of a process that will empower both Jews and non-Jews to begin to move beyond what the powerful tell you is possible and to join the struggle to end racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism and the oppression of a society based on class oppression and patriarchy. So, no, this is not just a sweet little sing-along for the High Holidays—it is an opportunity to start a new way of living whether or not you believe in God or find meaning in religious rituals. Please join us—more info at https://www.tikkun.org/hh2020 Ten days till the process starts Sept. 18th