Threefold Blessing
Blessing When the upper root And the lower root find each other They meet at the inner point of truth. Yes, this is it The inner point of truth Will […]
Elijah Invented Sarcasm
Elijah invented sarcasm. Before stones and altar; before water flowed like blood; before hearts moved backward, and fire rained down to drench the waiting sacrifices – First there was sarcasm. […]
Revelation
“I revealed myself to those who didn’t ask for me” Isaiah 65:1 “I Posed in a Bikini in Times Square.” Anna O’Brien. Cosmopolitan. July 3, 2018. I can do […]
She Said No!: A Purim Song
Recording by MIRAJ, ©Margot Stein, Rayzel Raphael, Bayla Ruchama, Juliet Spitzer Rosh Hodesh Adar, February 17,1988 Without her gown He summoned her down Said it was his right As a man […]
Blessing for Birth Parents by Adoptees Under the Huppah
Holy One of Blessing, who sees the invisible mystery of love and the destiny of souls, we reach out to you at this time. Standing together under this huppah, filled […]
A Mi Shebeirakh for Healing for Victims of Homophobia and Transphobia
Mi shebeirakh horeinu Avraham, Yitzhak v’Ya’akov, Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel v’Leah,Yosef, David v’Yonatan, Rut v’Na’omi – May the one who blessed our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and […]
Queer Ketubah
This ketubah was created by Lily Nagy-Deak and Lanni Solochek for our wedding. We looked at many ketubot and Jewish texts in the process of writing this document. We wanted […]
Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet
A meditation on Kohelet 3:1–8 לַכֹּל זְמָן וְעֵת לְכָל־חֵפֶץ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם [3:1] To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; עֵת לָלֶדֶת וְעֵת […]
Mishenikhnas Adar
משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה Mishenikhnas Adar marbim b’simkhah When the month of Adar arrives we increase our joy Download the sheet music below
On Joseph and Solitary Confinement
When Joseph was jailed, wrongly accused of seducing his master’s wife, what did he feel? Did he remember his first stint in solitary, the pit where his brothers threw him […]
