Morning Service

We greet the day with gratitude, blessings, and praise.

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Morning Blessings, Queered

By Rabbi Ariel Stone

Morning blessings with new language for a variety of gender identities more

Tags: gender, gender inclusive, genderqueer, LGBTQ, trans, transgender, feminism, blessing, morning blessings

Journeying through the Siddur: A Review of Alden Solovy's This Joyous Soul

By Trisha Arlin

The Amidah section in my copy of This Joyous Soul is a sea of dog ears more

Tags: blessing, joy, journey

Because I Can

By Yael Beer

A girl defiantly donning tefillin more

Tags: feminism, tefillin, gender, gender inclusive

Birkot Hashakhar

By Aliza Abusch-Magder

Interpetive morning prayers of gratitude more

Tags: morning blessings, gratitude

Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet

By Rabbi Lewis John Eron

"Death compliments birth, they form the bookends of life..." more

Tags: meditation, mourning, megillah, welcoming, Ecclesiastes

How to Bless Yourself

By Anna Talhami

Call yourself a blessing more

Tags: blessing, healing, heart

Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place Yourself

By Alden Solovy

Like the liturgists of old, Arlin’s work troubles us where we are too comfortable and comforts us when we are troubled more

Tags: blessing, blessing circle, Esther, creation, Amidah, healing, heart, joy, journey, intention, shema, shiva, tashlikh, teshuvah

How We Close Our Prayers

By Rabbi James Stone Goodman

"Leave a moment for the silent expectation for peace..." more

Tags: meditation

The Profound Simplicity of Jewish Spirituality

By Alden Solovy

The act of remembering ... is the heartbeat of Jewish spirituality. more

Tags: angels, blessing, gratitude

Promise of a New Day: A Review of Alden Solovy's This Grateful Heart

By Rabbi Me'irah Iliinsky

I’m packing This Grateful Heart into my disaster-survival kit. more

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