Wash Your Hands

A small stream flows through lush green grass and dense plants in a peaceful, wooded area.

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

Several hands tearing a round loaf of bread, symbolizing sharing and togetherness.

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

A small stream flows through lush green grass and dense plants in a peaceful, wooded area.

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 […]

Original Ketubah

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

Download PDFs in English and Hebrew below. Be Siman Tov u-be Mazal Tov With auspicious signs and a flow of wellbeing In the name of YHVH the universal force With […]

Prayer after the Tornadoes

A small stream flows through lush green grass and dense plants in a peaceful, wooded area.

G-d beyond my understanding, The sky has turned violent, Crushing homes and lives, Upending dreams, Toppling the foundations of hope and sustenance. Crisis and chaos, Confusion and loss, A scene […]

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