How to Pray While the World Burns
Go outside. Find a patch of grass, sand, dirt. Sit, kneel, place a hand or just A finger to the soft earth. Feel it pulse back. Open your palms and […]
Prayer for the Tree of Life Synagogue
Sure as we lay tefillin on bruised bodies, and walk cautiously down the halls of seminaries, and sure as we collectively hold our breaths as we drop off frightened children […]
Where God Is
There is no place that God is not Even in the barrel of a gun Bullets sing their own psalm A deadly hymn to the true judge The Creator of […]
Dream of the Red Tent
I want to write about tenderness a year of exhaling into presence finding myself and my tribe the lost tribe of DinahDina is Jacob’s only daughter and the sister of […]
Interpretive Sheva Brakhot
Created for the wedding of my daughter, Emily 1. Blessed is the fruit of the vine, that we may drink of it now to celebrate this union. May you both […]
Havdalah Gedolah: Closing Ritual for School Year, Camp Session, or Other Group Time
Background Every Sunday morning at the congregational school where I serve as Education Director, students and staff begin our school day by saying farewell to ShabbatShabbat is the Sabbath day, […]
A Caregiver’s Prayer
ShekhinahThe feminine name of God, expounded upon in the rabbinic era and then by the Kabbalists in extensive literature on the feminine attributes of the divine., we live in a […]
Psalm of Protest 12: On the Eve of an Election
This Psalm of Protest is to be “sung on the eveEve, according to the book of Genesis, is Adam’s wife, the first woman to be created. of an election.” […]
Gentle Boys: A Mother’s Prayer
So, I live in the United States where an awful thing just played out on the public stage. This is a prayer I wrote for my 3 sons, for boys […]
#MeToo Atonement Prayers
As the Days of Awe roll around, we find ourselves repeating two traditional confession prayers — Al Chet’For the sin …” – the litany of sins for which Jews ask […]
