First Aid for Spiritual Seekers

Forms of religious devotion are shifting and theres a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent and ancient rabbinical lineage, as a young adult he moved away from religion towards storytelling, theater, and drag. Today he leads a pop-up synagogue in New York City that takes as its tagline everybody-friendly, artist-driven, God-optional. Its not merely about spiritual community but about recovering the sacred and reinventing the very meaning of "we." He shares more in this interview with On Being shares more.


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