A New Light: Hanukkah Prayer
A meditation on the holiness of the HanukkahThe holiday which celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem following its conquest by the Syrians in 165 BCE. The holiday is celebrated by lighting candles in a hanukiyah oon each of eight nights. Other customs include the eating of fried foods such as latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (jelly donuts), playing dreidl (a gambling game with a spinning top), and, in present day America, gift giving. lights
Prayer in a Time of Serious Illness: A Modern Vidui
A modern viduiLit. Confession. A litany of one's sins that is traditionally recited on Yom Kippur, prior to one’s wedding, and on one's deathbed. (confession) for serious illness or death
A Blessing for Confidentiality in Jewish Community
“Hold my secret / like a newborn baby”
Baby Girl Naming Ceremony: Entering the Covenant
Baby girl naming ceremony with mystical background
Fighting Tyranny
“We are / (altogether) / a torrent of the invisible”
An Invocation of Divine Motherhood
“Motherhood / Finds us…”
A Prayer on Child Abandonment
On being un-chosen
Elohim Hayyim: On the Amidah
Reimagining the AmidahLit. Standing One of the central prayers of the Jewish prayer service, recited silently while standing.
For Dinah, Who Did Not Speak
“Wait, I want to say, / but he says hush”
Uprising
“Me too, DinahDina is Jacob's only daughter and the sister of the twelve tribes., / me too”