This Year is Different from All Other Years: The Ten Plagues
Coming to the ten plagues this year is certainly different than every other year. Many of us have been wondering about adding an eleventh plague (coronavirus) to the list. As I […]
Zoomed Out, or, What To Do When Everyone You Know, Love, and Dream of a Better World With Is a One-inch Talking Head In a Pixelated Box

Praise their presence, grieve their absence. Grow in your capacity to be touched by other faces, and to not touch your own. Look someone directly in the eyes (they won’t […]
A Psalm of Curses to the Coronavirus

curse the fire! and curse the dark! curse these unlinked arms! and bottomed out hearts! and when i am done cursing permit my being to sink so low that i […]
Setting a Conscious Table: Four Questions for the Passover Seder

As you prepare for the Passover seder this year, please consider using these four questions to help inform your own conscious food choices, and to enhance your discussions with family […]
A Dayeinu for Our Time

Dayeinu is the most well-known Passover song, probably because of its simple refrain and rollicking tune. But it actually makes no sense. Would it really be enough if God had […]
Wrap Me Up: A Prayer For Those Who Are Overwhelmed

Ezrat Nafsheinu—Soul sustainer, I’m tempted to go get my tallis, sit with my legs tucked up underneath me, and wrap myself in fabric and string. I feel small and vulnerable. […]
The Blessing of Faces: A Zoom Prayer

So many beautiful faces, So many radiant souls, Shining forth Into our hearts. Look at those eyes. The smiles. The hopes. The fears. The yearning. The questioning. The compassion. The […]
Prayer for Nurses

God, Source of Life, we discern your presence through our actions here on earth. We know you as Healer through the care and attention of the healers we encounter. Compassionate […]
Living Kaddish: Reciting the Names of the Living When We Have No Words to Pray

sometimes when i have no words to pray  i just start saying people’s names  and between each pause i curl up against  i swear i hear  […]
Prayer for Healers

Hebrew by Rabbi Noa Sattah. Download the PDF below. Â