Prayer for Tisha B’Av Actions: Jews Say #ClosetheCamps
May this call of the shofar be a bridge between Olam Hazeh and Olam Haba
Illuminate the World: An Interpretive Sim Shalom
Sim Shalom appears in the Amidah and asks God to bring peace to the world. God, You scattered the divine sparks so that we may find them in each other, […]
Drawing Near: An Interpretive R’tzei
This prayer is part of the daily Amidah, and traditionally, the prayer requests a restoration of the second Temple, and a restoration of the service Jews performed at the Temple, […]
Heretics in our Hearts: An Interpretive Birkat HaMinim
Birkat HaMinim is part of the daily Amidah, and traditionally, the prayer asks God to curse all heretics and idolaters, especially those who might try to harm Jews. This interpretive version […]
Gather Us: An Interpretive Galuyot
This prayer is part of the daily Amidah, and traditionally, the prayer is a request for an “ingathering of exiles.” Jews living outside of Israel are considered to be in […]
Rise Up Together: A Tisha B’Av Prayer for the Rohingya People
Dear God do not hold yourself silent; be not deaf or still dear God. /
Be not deaf or still, dear heart.
Mourners Kaddish After a Mass Murder
Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba Life is a volley of bullets b’alma di v’ra hirutei, v’yamlikh malkhutei, Time is a bleeding wound b’hayyeikhon uv’yomeikhon uv’hayyei d’khol beit Yisrael, in houses of […]
Shofarot: A Tripartite Proposal
As a once and future (I will get back to it!) French hornist, I feel a special attachment to the shofar and have enjoyed serving as ba’al toke’ah on numerous occasions […]
Sefirat Ha’Aveilut: The Counting of Grief – from Shavuot to Tisha B’Av
A new ritual of creating a daily embodied spiritual practice for the liminal period of Sefirat Ha’Aveilut/the counting of grief, in the nine weeks between Shavuot and Tisha b’Av
Prayer for Solomon Teka
This is a poem written in response to the death of 18-year-old Ethiopian Israeli Solomon Teka, who was shot by an off-duty police officer on Sunday, June 30th. I’m an […]
