A Conversation about the Future of Humanistic Liturgy with Herb Levine

Rabbi Tzemah will talk with fellow liturgist Herb Levine about his upcoming book: Radical Amazement: A Siddur for Universalists, the challenges of writing a resonant and poetic liturgy, and how he expresses his humanism.

Dr. Herb Levine is the author of two books of bi-lingual poetry: Words for Blessing the World (2017) and An Added Soul: Poems for a New Old Religion (2020). He is currently working on a humanist prayer book, Radical Amazement: A Siddur for Our Time.

He came to poetry after a career in academia and non-profit social services. As a scholar, he published a book on a contemporary reading of the Psalms, a book on the Irish poet Yeats and a number of articles on Walt Whitman.

He has been teaching Jewish adults for the past forty years, primarily through the annual National Havurah Summer Institute (www.havurah.org). He is a devoted practitioner of Mussar, the Jewish discipline of ethical mindfulness. Dr. Levine is also a translator, with Rabbi Reena Spicehandler, of stories by Israeli Nobel prize winner, Shmuel Yosef Agnon and by Mendele Mocher Seforim, a founder of modern Hebrew literature. They are currently working on a translation of the works of Elisheva Bikhovsky, a Russian who learned Hebrew and moved to Palestine and there wrote the first novel in Hebrew by a woman.

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