“Sacred life on screen is here to stay. As our world rapidly rearranges mid-pandemic, we who gather regularly in spiritual communities can still connect with inner life, with mystery, and with each other, are in new territory. Online rituals, gatherings, and prayers not only work: they must work, and they must be rendered 100% kosher at this time when we need each other and sacred context more than ever. Our hallowed and sometimes rigid laws, no matter how ancient, must evolve, as they and we always do, to accommodate these unprecedented times so we can survive and thrive.”
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie joined 29 thought leaders for the Jewish Daily Forward’s Special Edition “After Corona” to contemplate how the pandemic would influence the part of Jewish life they are most invested in.
