Ritual for Ending Quarantine or Self-Isolation
“This shall be the ritual for the quarantined person at the time of purification” (Lev 14:2) This ritual is loosely based on a variety of rituals: waking in the morning, […]
Wash Your Hands
We are humans relearning to wash our hands. Washing our hands is an act of love Washing our hands is an act of care Washing our hands is an act […]
Queer Aliyah Blessing
this is a blessing for neither or well actually and sometimes for avraham bat sarah sarah ben avraham for all the houses with unmarked doors that peer through windows and […]
A Blessing for when Two People are Thinking about Each Other and One of them Reaches Out to the Other
Blessed are you Hashem, Ruler of all that was, is, and will be, we thank you for the profound capacity of our minds to consider those we love and to […]
Mourners’ Kaddish: A Poetic Interpretation
יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא Growing in holiness, we inhale and breathe tiny human words Into the immensity of sacred spacetime אָמֵן Amen בְּעָלְמָא דִּי בְרָא כִרְעוּתֵהּ וְיַמְלִיךְ מַלְכוּתֵהּ […]
Traveler’s Prayer in a Time of Pandemic
This is a new prayer for safe travel, incorporating the perils of modern life with classic language of t’filat haderekh, the traveler’s prayer. It’s my third prayer related to the […]
Ketubah for Two Women
Scroll down for Hebrew version Be Siman Tov u-be Mazal Tov With auspicious signs and a flow of wellbeing In the name of YHVH the universal force With the intention […]
Ketubah for Two Men
Scroll down for Hebrew version In the name of YHVH the universal force With auspicious signs and a flow of wellbeing With the intention to serve the unification of the […]
Original Ketubah
Download PDFs in English and Hebrew below. Be Siman Tov u-be Mazal Tov With auspicious signs and a flow of wellbeing In the name of YHVH the universal force With […]
Prayer after the Tornadoes
G-d beyond my understanding, The sky has turned violent, Crushing homes and lives, Upending dreams, Toppling the foundations of hope and sustenance. Crisis and chaos, Confusion and loss, A scene […]
