A Blessing for Mental Health
“You do not have to shine yourself up / Or polish off your grit”
A Shiva for Personal Loss
“Gone is the water bowl made empty by resignation”
A Psalm of Hannah Arendt
“She walked to the outer limit / And in outrage, took out her pen”
Finding Life: On Holocaust Trauma
“Let us grab hold of our present”
Soul Craft
A meditation on Jews in the trades
Dinah and Shekhinah
“I refuse to be the shadow of what you do to me”
Re-Rooting: A Grounding Exercise on Parental Estrangement
“I simply trust the depth of my roots”
A Prayer for Twilight (Bein Hashmashot)
“The sun may set but the light still burns”
Jacob at the End of the Ladder
“There is a space / Beyond guilt / And struggle / And shame…”
Prayer for the State of Israel: Revised for Israel’s 70th Anniversary
Prayer for the State of IsraelLit. ''the one who struggles with God.'' Israel means many things. It is first used with reference to Jacob, whose name is changed to Israel (Genesis 32:29), the one who struggles with God. Jacob's children, the Jewish people, become B'nai Israel, the children of Israel. The name also refers to the land of Israel and the State of Israel. updated to be inclusive of all its inhabitants