Rise Like the Dawn: A Prayer for Action on the Rohingya Genocide
“Rabbi Asi said: Why was Esther likened to the dawn? It is to tell you: Just as the dawn is the conclusion of the entire night, so too, Esther was […]
The Secret of One and Many: Raza de-Purim
The Jews confirmed and accepted – kimu v’kiblu – we accepted, written singular, pronounced plural. Fulfilled and accepted – they fulfilled (on Purim) that which they had already accepted back […]
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 […]
