Wheel of Teshuvah: A Guided Journey
A journey of art making, writing, and meditation
The Azazel Chapbook: An Earth-Based Yom Kippur Guide
Guide for a nature-based Yom KippurThe holiest day of the Jewish year and the culmination of a season of self-reflection. Jews fast, abstain from other worldly pleasures, and gather in prayers that last throughout the day. Following Ne'ilah, the final prayers, during which Jews envision the Gates of Repentance closing, the shofar is sounded in one long blast to conclude the holy day. It is customary to begin building one's sukkah as soon as the day ends. ritual in solitude
Tashlikh at Home
Ritual to do at home with a bowl of water and ice
Teshuvah
“I am forgiven because I dance”
Here I Am
“He inhaled, then in motion / began slowly, chanting”
This Morning
“This morning / the password for / my daughter’s class / doesn’t work”
Pandemic Sabbath
“Is she mapping Sabbath?”
Shanah Tovah, Dear Couch: A Meditation on our Homes as Holy Space
“Good Yuntif, dear kitchen table”
Avinu Malkeinu for This Time
“Avinu Malkeinu, open our hearts”
Rebirth
“Sweeping the leaves out of the drain, I think of change …”
