Robyn Ashworth-Steen
Jews in Churches - a choice
This is an address made on Shabbat for Manchester Reform Synagogue on 17th December 2022. On Thursday I found myself crying in a corner...
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WANDERING RABBI
Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen
Welcome to Wandering Rabbi! A space to explore the liminal nature of being a human being in this world, and particularly of being a Jew and a rabbi.
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The hope for this space is that it acts as a tapestry of words and thoughts. A place where I can weave various strands together, which otherwise would remain buried and stuck. In the words of Clarissa Pinkola Estés I know that 'art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only'. This is a commitment to creativity and my voice and, as such, a commitment to you and your voice. An encouragement to find the space you need and the inspiration which fires you up.
A place where Judaism, feminism, justice, community, books, liminality and critical thinking meet and mingle.
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Robyn Ashworth-Steen
What lights are we lighting?
Sermon delivered on Sunday 27th November 2022, the last service at the Jackson's Row building which has housed the community for the past...
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Finding the Blessing in the Ending
Sermon delivered on 25th November 2022, the last Shabbat at the Jackson's Row building after 70 years of housing the community. So, how...
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Longing for the Promised Land
Here's a copy of the sermonette delivered at Manchester Reform Synagogue on 22nd October 2022. Photo by Meritt Thomas on Unsplash As some...
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Breaking the Idols
Sermon delivered at Manchester Reform Synagogue on Yom Kippur morning 5783/2022. Influenced, as always, by the teaching of Rabbi...
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Ayecha? Where are you? An Elul Reckoning
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Agitating and Organising
Here is an adapted version of my D'var Torah at Manchester Reform Synagogue on 16th July 2022 - parashat Pinchas. A snippet of some...
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Choosing Life: What will it be? A giant or a grasshopper?
Adaptation of a sermonette delivered at Manchester Reform Synagogue on 18th June 2022. Please only reproduce the work on this blog with...
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Promise and Emptiness: Pregnancy Loss
A note to readers. This is my/our particular journey of Second Child Infertility – my musings and reflections. My journey is not...
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Embracing Vastness
Please only reproduce the work on this blog with proper attribution or the permission of the author. Sea at Pittenweem, Scotland, 2021....
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Rabbi Sheila Shulman (z"l) - A Myriad Threads – Re-Reading the Notes of Our Ongoing Conversation
This piece was written for a memorial evening to my teacher, Rabbi Sheila, at Leo Baeck College on 22nd November 2019. As Sheila...
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The Pain of Being in Community
The final fourth sermon from High Holy Days. How can we be in discomfort? How can we be alongside people when it can be so difficult? ...
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The Shattering of a Jug: If Not Now, Then When?
Better late than never?! Well here is the third of four sermons delivered at Manchester Reform Synagogue over the High Holy Days. How...
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Being alongside suffering
Below is the second of four sermons I delivered at Manchester Reform Synagogue over the Yom Tovim. All sources can be found on this...
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The Sacred Goat and the Holy Coin: Uniquely You
Below is the first of four sermons I delivered at Manchester Reform Synagogue over the Yom Tovim. Since writing this I have seen this...
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Wandering Jew
Please only reproduce the work on this blog with proper attribution or the permission of the author. One of my most pernicious narratives...
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Stepping into the Creative River
Please only reproduce the work on this blog with proper attribution or the permission of the author. Creating a blog has been in the back...
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HERE YOU CAN FIND SOME DETAILS OF RABBI ROBYN’S PUBLISHED WORKS.
‘Lilith’ by Robyn Ashworth-Steen, in Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves: Uplifting the Voices of Talmudic Heroines and Honoring Them with Simple, Vegan Recipes, edited by Kenden Alfond, 2022, Turner.
‘The Power of Language’ by Robyn Ashworth-Steen, in What Makes me Angry: Howls of Rabbinic Rage…and Solutions, edited by R. Jonathan Romain, 2022, The Movement for Reform Judaism.
‘Wandering Jews: Using our Exilic Condition to Create Communities and Change’ by Robyn Ashworth-Steen, in Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community, edited by Lia D. Shimada, 2020, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
‘If not with others, how?: Creating Rabbinic Activists Through Study’ by Robyn Ashworth-Steen and Deborah Kahn-Harris, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol. 2.1 (Autumn 2020).
‘How Satisfactory is Maimonides’ Solution to the Problem of Evil’, Robyn Ashworth-Steen, European Judaism, Vol. 50, No.1, Spring 2017:113-122.
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