Home Shabbat Evening Service in Spanish and English

SERVICIO DOMÉSTICO DE EREV SHABBAT Con bendiciones normativos teístas en hebreo y traducciones humanistas en español e inglés HOME SHABBAT EVENING SERVICE with normative theistic blessings in Hebrew and humanist […]
Omer 2019: Week 1

Week 1: Hesed (Love, Kindness) As we begin Counting the Omer, each day’s quality intersects with Hesed, inviting us to contemplate various dimensions of love/kindness. We invited writers to reflect on […]
Ritual Connecting Passover with Rosh Hashanah

There is a traditional connection between Sukkot and Tu B’shvat: saving the Sukkot etrog for jam on Tu B’shvat. It occurred to me that a similar food connection could be […]
Omer 2019: Week 2
Week 2: Gevurah (Strength, Boundaries, Holding) As we begin Counting the Omer, each day’s quality intersects with Gevurah, inviting us to contemplate various dimensions of strength. We invited writers to reflect […]
Batya

“Now Pharoah’s daughter … saw him, the child—here, a boy weeping!“ (Exodus 2:6) If Moses’ mother had a better option, if Pharaoh wasn’t trying to kill the infant sons, would […]
Pesakh Guided Meditation

This meditation is inspired, in part, by pieces written by Rabbi Steven Exler and Zoketsu Norman Fischer. It is also based on the teaching of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the […]
The Egg on the Seder Plate

Why is there an egg on the Seder plate, and what does the egg mean today? Just as the egg can symbolize both mourning and renewal, the eggs we choose […]
For Survivors of School Shootings

This prayer is a response to three recent suicides. In the past week, Jeremy Richman, the father of a first-grader killed in the Sandy Hook School shooting, was found dead […]
Devotional #1: Invoking Departed Souls

Spend a time alone sit down at a table that has another purpose a kitchen table other than thinking a table in a park or by the water take a […]
Recipe for Seder
