Collaboratively Creating a Prayer or Meditation of Belonging for Before the Shema
Amy Ariel offers a teaching about belonging and a collaboratively-created prayer.
There Are So Many Ways to Pray for Our Country
“We pray by raising our voices and blowing our whistles,
by marching and by singing.”
Keeping Vigil
“Love is all I have to offer / If only it were enough”
Slichot to the Earth (Asking for forgiveness)
“Oh earth, how we’ve harmed you
Oh earth, help us heal…”
Psalm of the Trees
“Thank You for the birds that build their nests in our branches and sing with us in the morning light”
A Prayer to Keep Our Hearts Open
“We can plant seeds of love where hatred has grown, / And we can rest when we feel overwhelmed.”
Water and Waiting: Mikveh Blessings for Donor Embryo Transfer
This special ritual follows traditional mikveh practice honoring the complexity of building family through donor embryo transfer.
Yizkor
This. This is the stone of grief that needs tending. The grief for lost loves The grief for lost lives The grief for the world Which […]
The Darkness of Tevet
The darkness these days is deep, notwithstanding slowly lengthening days of the approaching equinox, the alignment of planets in a perfect, fleeting arc on the horizon, the warming sun. […]
To This I Pledge
“Blessed Breath of the Universe, /
I pledge myself again…”
