Spiritual Humanistic Judaism
A diverse, welcoming community
Spiritual Humanistic Judaism is a Judaism of human responsibility, inherited practice, reconstructed theology, sacred culture, and disciplined ritual life.
Non-theistic. Fully spiritual. Rooted in the evolving civilization of the Jewish people.
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Our Beliefs
The purpose of religion, the yetzer hara and yetzer hatov, Shabbat, and the work of repair.
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Our Practice
Prayer re-authored, sacred time, ritual, and community as the locus of the sacred.
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Mordecai Kaplan
Judaism as an evolving religious civilization — the foundation of our approach.
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Harold Schulweis
From God to godliness: predicate theology and the divinity of the attributes.
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Our Scholarship
“Holiness Without a Subject” — the ideas at the heart of our community, from Kaplan and Schulweis onward.
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Marcia Falk
Rewriting the blessing formula itself: prayer without a King, still unmistakably Jewish.
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Tefilotenu
Our own siddur — the full Shabbat liturgy, in Hebrew, transliteration and English.
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Baruch Spinoza
God, or Nature: the philosopher who emptied the divine of personhood centuries before we did.
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Contemporary Rabbis
Rabbis teaching and leading in Spiritual Humanistic and Reconstructionist Judaism today.