Taharot in Pittsburgh
As the Jewish world mourns the murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, a group of private individuals are preparing themselves to perform taharot. Taharah (taharot, pl) is the ritual preparation […]
How to Pray While the World Burns
Go outside. Find a patch of grass, sand, dirt. Sit, kneel, place a hand or just A finger to the soft earth. Feel it pulse back. Open your palms and […]
Prayer for the Tree of Life Synagogue
Sure as we lay tefillin on bruised bodies, and walk cautiously down the halls of seminaries, and sure as we collectively hold our breaths as we drop off frightened children […]
Where God Is
There is no place that God is not Even in the barrel of a gun Bullets sing their own psalm A deadly hymn to the true judge The Creator of […]
Dream of the Red Tent
I want to write about tenderness a year of exhaling into presence finding myself and my tribe the lost tribe of Dinah of Miriam of Zipporah of Sarah wildly unabashed […]
Interpretive Sheva Brakhot
Created for the wedding of my daughter, Emily 1. Blessed is the fruit of the vine, that we may drink of it now to celebrate this union. May you both […]
A Caregiver’s Prayer
Shekhinah, we live in a broken world, and the light gets in through the cracks. I come seeking this light and I come seeking lightness. I have opened my heart […]
Psalm of Protest 12: On the Eve of an Election
This Psalm of Protest is to be “sung on the eve of an election.” The third stanza quotes verses from Psalm 94. The fourth stanza echoes those lines with […]
Gentle Boys: A Mother’s Prayer
So, I live in the United States where an awful thing just played out on the public stage. This is a prayer I wrote for my 3 sons, for boys […]
#MeToo Atonement Prayers
An alternate version of Al Chet and Ashamnu for the #MeToo era
