Regretfully, this event has been cancelled as Aurora has tested positive for COVID-19. Please stay tuned for another possible program with Aurora in the spring. 

"I will not weep for shattered eggshells from which birdsong fills the world." —"Tisha b'Av," from Rimonim by Aurora Levins Morales

In this moment of our history, we face many kinds of breaking: our hearts, our communities, our allegiances, many of the relationships and beliefs we took for granted — even the ecosystems within which we exist. But breakage is not only loss; it is also an opening to previously unimagined possibilities. Breaking is also birth and has its own beauty. Together, we will examine our contemporary broken temples, sifting through ruin for seeds and treasures. In what ways does their breaking release us? What gifts are concealed in the wreckage?

Join CDT along with Nehar Shalom, Dayenu, Kavod, Jewish Liberation Fund, and Temple Beth Zion for this two-hour workshop that will include Aurora sharing her poetry and facilitating small and large group conversation.

Aurora Levins Morales is an Ashkenazi Puerto Rican feminist poet and essayist and lifelong liberationist. She has been called a prophetic voice and a visionary thinker, and her writing is widely used from the classroom to the streets, from synagogues to study groups. She is the author of nine books, including the soon to be released Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation (Ayin Press.) Also forthcoming is The Story of What is Broken is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader (Duke.) She lives in Maricao, Puerto Rico where she writes and farms.

Learn more about esteemed Puerto Rican Jewish poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales at www.auroralevinsmorales.com.