Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her play “A Raisin in the Sun,” which debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title is based on lines from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hushes: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” The play has achieved the status of a classic in American theater.… Read More

Freedom is not only liberation from external restraints. It also involves overcoming internalized feelings of negativity and fear of lack.… Read More

To be a source of liberation we need to first confront our own fears and layers of self-protection. … Read More

Scraping away our layers of defenses against our anxieties and fears opens up an intimacy with one another and with the Source of all life. … Read More

If we read deeply enough, if we live deeply enough, what looks like an ending becomes an opening…and we can be the author.… Read More

Breaking continuity can sometimes be the best way to maintain it.… Read More

Moments of fracture contain within them the possibility of life reconstructed and renewed.… Read More

We can enrobe words with different ones (metaphors). We can enrobe ourselves in different personas. These open up different possibilities, new ways of seeing what we thought we knew.… Read More

We weep for the brokenness in our world. Our refusal to be comforted is our insistence that we can create a better, more just future.
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Torah guides us on a journey that is both internally and externally focused. The world is ever in danger. And spiritually composed beings can bring wholeness to it.
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