A Prayer for Shavuot
Matrix of the Holy Blessed One, As we stand together To celebrate our Anniversary with You, Our Beloved, May we know that the TorahThe Five Books of MosesThe quintessential Jewish leader who spoke face to face with God, unlike any other prophet, and who freed the people from Egypt, led them through the desert for forty years, and received the Torah on Mt. Sinai. His Hebrew name is Moshe., and the […]
Lift Up Your Heads, for Juneteenth
“We will sing for freedom, / clap our hands for freedom.”
Freedom Moons
“…moons of freedom / blessing the nights.”
Our Mikdash (For dedication of a sanctuary)
A short ceremony to rededicate/rename a sanctuary in someone’s honor
Wrapping tefillin on a nursery log
Western hemlock’s thick roots drape the sides of a redcedar nursery log like tefillin straps, wrapping its substrate seven times. Love, severity, compassion, perseverance, compromise, connection, receptivity. And when the […]
May Each of Us: A Jewish Prayer for Juneteenth
“may each of us / remove the shackles of another”
Alternate Mikveh Ritual Using the Element of Air
While traditional mikvehThe ritual bath. The waters of the mikveh symbolically purify – they are seen as waters of rebirth. A convert immerses in the mikveh as part of conversion. Many Orthodox married women go to the mikveh following their period and before resuming sexual relations. Couples go to the mikveh before being married. Many, including some men, immerse before Yom Kippur; some go every Friday before Shabbat. rituals use water, this alternative uses the air generated by four fan-bearers.
Mikveh Hamayim
“12 months of mourning, / Travelling, conjoined, / On our continuing / Separate ways.”
Torah and Haftarah Blessings with Feminine God Language and Re-Gendered Hebrew
TorahThe Five Books of Moses, and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and study of the Torah is a high mitzvah. The Torah itself a scroll that is hand lettered on parchment, elaborately dressed and decorated, and stored in a decorative ark. It is chanted aloud on Mondays, Thursdays, and Shabbat, according to a yearly cycle. Sometimes "Torah" is used as a colloquial term for Jewish learning and narrative in general. and HaftarahThe portion of the books of the prophets read on Shabbat after the Torah reading. The two usually have parallel themes. blessings addressing the Divine as feminine
Ritual for Moving Out of a Home
A ritual to help you acknowledge your time in a particular space and prepare to move on
