Learning Guide and Reflective Practice for the Days of Awe
This new packet explores liturgical, temporal, and internal themes of the High Holidays.
What Blessing Do We Say When We Eat Meat?
An original blessing for the consumption of meat/poultry/fish
Kol Nidre
“Now, in this moment, / the veil shimmers into translucence /
and the fiction of our separation /
hesitates and wavers.”
Creation
“The Sun emerged from its dark hiding place and
the creatures of Earth
each added their own rhythmic cadence to the awakenings.”
Et La’asot LaShem: A Kavannah for Acts of SOS aka Breaking Torah to Redeem the Soul of the Jewish People
“To recite when intentionally breaking laws of Torah in an emergency…”
Hoshana: For the Day our Captives Returned to Zion
“our brothers and sisters stolen- ancestral lands left in ruins…”
Lineage with Shekhinah
“I want to introduce them / Shekhinah and my mother /
They share a love of flowers, birds,
Plants, trees, cats…”
The King is in the Field
“I walk further into the field, and in the distance, I glimpse You, / Standing on the horizon, your arms open to greet me…”
Our Pilgrimage to Eisner Camp
A mother makes a ritual of dropping off her children at summer camp.
Deeper
“We beseeched the beings
of wind and earth and air
and G-d…”
