Prayers for the Planet

Blue sky with scattered clouds above tall, rugged sandstone canyon walls in a desert landscape.

Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer shares a variety of new prayers including a Kaddish and Vidui for the planet.

Downpour

Watercolor painting of roses and greenery draped on a wooden structure under a cloudy sky.

“Rain clouds mass above, / so we race towards rows of stiff backed chairs…”

A Prayer For Librarians

Old library interior with tall bookshelves, wooden railings, and a large arched window at the far end.

“Because the first thing dictators do / Is ban books, history, music, science, art and journalism…”

Holy Wholeness

A water droplet falls into a calm blue surface, creating circular ripples.

“Call that kiss, PEACE. / Call the circle, SHALOM.”

Unetanah Tokef: Confronting Collective Grief

A row of tall, slender trees stands on a green, hilly landscape with dense vegetation.

  The terrible allusions to death in Unetanah Tokef I would imagine for many of us are just that– allusions– imagined examples of God’s awesomeness relative to the scale of […]

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