The Helper’s Prayer

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as i urge people  to seek help may i first and foremost be a person  who reaches  out for help especially when i feel most helpless   (amen).

The Radiance Between Us

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As was written, our trials can be lengthy: forty years of desert wandering, forty days of shelter in the ark. But I also think of Moses forty nights on the […]

When the World is Sick Mi Shebeirakh

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Here is a Mi shebeirakh, a blessing for healing for our world and for our times. “When the world is sick, can’t no one be well But I dreamt we […]

A Time to Refrain from Embracing

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“…a time for embracing and a time to refrain from embracing”  —Ecclesiastes 3:5 In this time of rumors, uncertainty, physical dangers and pandemic:   This is a time to embrace […]

Consolation in Time of Pandemic

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Pesukei de Nechemta 1. Intention to offer and serve Wilderness a plain every valley a High place. All flesh see together grass and Flowers speak to the mountains Lift up […]

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