A Prayer for the New Year, 5786

“Help our hearts heal so we can find the strength / to forge a new road and find a way to live in peace…”
Ritual for Surgery for Removal of Ovarian Mass, Ovary and Fallopian Tubes

A complete healing circle ritual including an introduction, poetry, prayers and reflections.
Prayers for the Planet

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

“Rain clouds mass above, / so we race towards rows of stiff backed chairs…”
Grief sneaks up on you

“Grief sneaks up on you / It taps you on your shoulder…”
A Kavanah for the Hebrew Month of Av כַּוָּנָה לְחֹדֶשׁ אָב

“Let Av hold what hurts. / Let it draw us near.”
We Are So Tired

“There is Holy Wholeness / There is True Connection”
A Prayer For Librarians

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

“Call that kiss, PEACE. / Call the circle, SHALOM.”
Unetanah Tokef: Confronting Collective Grief

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 […]