How to Bless Yourself

A woman with headphones gazes out a train window, with a coffee cup, orange, and tablet on the table in front of her.

If you are waiting for a spiritual leader to tell you, write what you need to hear and read it back to yourself and call it blessing. Call the act […]

Heschel King

A group of people link arms while marching in a civil rights protest, wearing leis and coats, with buildings in the background.

On the yahrzeit/anniversary of passing of Abraham Joshua Heschel and birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. I The picture of Abraham Joshua Heschel rabbi, human being, interpreter of inner Judaism […]

Preparing for Psalm 27

an iceberg floats in the water

May polar bears swim safely /
to the ice flows, and may we love /
our way back to soft tickling cheeks, /
hot breath, moist lips

Bat Shekhinah

A woman kisses a smiling girl on the cheek in a grassy field.

I created the Bat Shekhinah ritual when a friend from B’nai Or of Boston asked me to create a ritual for her daughter about to become a Bat Mitzvah. She […]

Loosening Our Hair: Queering Upshirin

Curly-haired toddler wearing a blue kippah, sitting in a patterned high chair, smiling indoors.

may the strength that flowed through the untamed and flung off locks of our ancestors flow through your locks here today and whenever you feel the need to be loosened […]

Body-Positive New Year’s Blessing

A person wearing a turquoise sweater holding hands on their chest, showing jewelry like a ring and bracelet.

This is a time of year that people talk a lot about their bodies, so I will remind you: Your body is a wondrous thing. It has lungs that help […]

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