Prayer for our Kurdish Brothers and Sisters
Source of Life, Source of Peace, Protect and give strength to our Kurdish brothers and sisters Standing in the line of fire Running for their lives as the Turks attack […]
A Prayer for the LGBTQ+ Rights SCOTUS Hearing
On ErevLit. Evening Jewish holidays begin in the evening. Hence, Erev ShabbatShabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work. Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends. is the eve of the Sabbath. Yom KippurThe holiest day of the Jewish year and the culmination of […]
All Our Grudges: An Alternative Kol Nidrei
All grudges, resentments, and vows of vengence and bitterness, All undying hatreds or annoyances that we may hold onto Or talk endlessly about, boring our friends, Or lose sleep obsessing […]
Unetaneh Tokef for 5780
On Rosh HaShanahThe Jewish New Year, also considered the Day of Judgment. The period of the High Holidays is a time of introspection and atonement. The holiday is celebrated with […]
What Was I Even Thinking?
You want to leave in peace. /
I want to write your name with love.
Interpretive Eleh Ezkerah
ELEH EZKERAH is a medieval poem based on midrashim from the 5th and 6th centuries, which recounts the martyrdom of ten rabbis who were killed by the Romans following the […]
I Stand Here (Hineni): A Song for the Service Leader
I wrote this several years ago during my first professional assignment as a cantorial soloist, primarily to calm down my jittery nerves about the whole experience. It has since been […]
Blessing for the Body
Blessed are You, the Unembodied One, before whom we appear in the imperfect flesh that holds our part of Your perfected wisdom. Our openings and vessels and tubes and connections […]
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The new year falls from a languid sky over Ocean Parkway crimson light on pre-war bathroom tiles. One week ago was Labor Day. Without lifeguards we are summoned to remember […]
Here I am – Hineni
An interactive prayer for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Mussaf Here I am Stirred up Planted in front of You And in front of my Fellow conspirators in prayer To […]
