Omer Day 5: April Poem
“Relax and stretch into love, whispers the gate of Hod in Hesed”
Omer Day 20: Into the Nile
“When I heard the decree, I said nothing. / Who were the Hebrews to me, anyway?”
Shedding a New Light: A Service for Lighting the Shiva Candle
“May the lingering glow of our loved one’s soul guide us…”
Passover Immersion Ceremony
A mikvehThe ritual bath. The waters of the mikveh symbolically purify – they are seen as waters of rebirth. A convert immerses in the mikveh as part of conversion. Many Orthodox married women go to the mikveh following their period and before resuming sexual relations. Couples go to the mikveh before being married. Many, including some men, immerse before Yom Kippur; some go every Friday before Shabbat. ceremony to prepare for PassoverPassover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish people's liberation from slavery and Exodus from Egypt. Its Hebrew name is Pesakh. Its name derives from the tenth plague, in which God "passed over" the homes of the Jewish firstborn, slaying only the Egyptian firstborn. Passover is celebrated for a week, and many diaspora Jews celebrate for eight days. The holiday begins at home at a seder meal and ritual the first (and sometimes second) night. Jews tell the story of the Exodus using a text called the haggadah, and eat specific food (matzah, maror, haroset, etc).
Omer Day 48: A Different Dream
“We are getting to the bottom of it, the very foundation of majesty”
Omer Day 22: Regarding Old Wounds
“Much like surgery, it’s often necessary for me to receive my wounds in order to grow…”
Omer Day 41: The Fire at the Core
“The foundation is eternal”
Omer Day 29: Stepping up to Love
“Maybe I can be a sprout poking / Through the cold stone…”
Omer Day 23: For the Parkland Survivors – Discipline of Endurance
Like MosesThe quintessential Jewish leader who spoke face to face with God, unlike any other prophet, and who freed the people from Egypt, led them through the desert for forty years, and received the Torah on Mt. Sinai. His Hebrew name is Moshe., the students of Parkland show us the true meaning of the discipline of endurance
Omer Day 34: Let Us Meet
“Let us meet in sacred moments of holiness and love”
