In This Moment

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on this Feed on this Page in this Heart fear is okay Here hurt is okay Here hope is okay Here relief is okay Here you are okay Here too […]

For a World in Pandemic

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We are a global community We travel from here to there Country to country Sharing the good and the bad In this time of trial by disease We are learning… […]

Wash Your Hands

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We are humans relearning to wash our hands. Washing our hands is an act of love Washing our hands is an act of care Washing our hands is an act […]

Queer Aliyah Blessing

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this is a blessing for neither or well actually and sometimes for avraham bat sarah sarah ben avraham for all the houses with unmarked doors that peer through windows and […]

Mourners’ Kaddish: A Poetic Interpretation

A hand touches a colorful mezuzah on a doorpost in a home.

יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא Growing in holiness, we inhale and breathe tiny human words  Into the immensity of sacred spacetime   אָמֵן Amen   בְּעָלְמָא דִּי בְרָא כִרְעוּתֵהּ וְיַמְלִיךְ מַלְכוּתֵהּ […]

Traveler’s Prayer in a Time of Pandemic

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This is a new prayer for safe travel, incorporating the perils of modern life with classic language of t’filat haderekh, the traveler’s prayer. It’s my third prayer related to the […]

Ketubah for Two Women

A hand touches a colorful mezuzah on a doorpost in a home.

Scroll down for Hebrew version Be Siman Tov u-be Mazal Tov With auspicious signs and a flow of wellbeing In the name of YHVH the universal force With the intention […]

Ketubah for Two Men

A hand touches a colorful mezuzah on a doorpost in a home.

Scroll down for Hebrew version In the name of YHVH the universal force With auspicious signs and a flow of wellbeing With the intention to serve the unification of the […]

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