Communal Blessing for the Children
“I created this prayer when I was a member of a very small synagogue with just a few children”
Seder Teachings, Rituals, and Readings for 5781/2021
“Pharaoh’s power over us is replaced with God giving us the power to make good choices at every step of our lives.”
For the U.S. Asian Community
Prayer in response to shooting in Atlanta on March 16, 2021
Return Again
“Yet turning to You for strength/Is as natural as breathing air”
The Countesses Do Count
“we’ve counted for millennia, and still we count”
A Crust of Bread at the Seder Table
“This PassoverPassover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish people's liberation from slavery and Exodus from Egypt. Its Hebrew name is Pesakh. Its name derives from the tenth plague, in which God "passed over" the homes of the Jewish firstborn, slaying only the Egyptian firstborn. Passover is celebrated for a week, and many diaspora Jews celebrate for eight days. The holiday begins at home at a seder meal and ritual the first (and sometimes second) night. Jews tell the story of the Exodus using a text called the haggadah, and eat specific food (matzah, maror, haroset, etc)., there will be a place for lesbians in Judaism”
Shir Hashirim: The Song of Songs
“Here, in hearth of heart, / All is made whole.”
She’asani Ish V’ishah
Prayer honoring one’s gender identity
Prayer For Those Waiting For the Vaccine
“I pray for all of us / That our day / Not be, please God / Too far away.”
Three Mizrahi Seder Traditions: From My Home to Yours
Mizrahi sederLit. Order. The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose. Additionally, there an ancient tradition to have a seder on Rosh Hashanah, which has been practiced in particular by Sephardi communities. This seder involves the blessing and eating of simanim, or symbolic foods. The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees. traditions
