Rosh Hodesh Heshvan
“May we enter the season / as we are, / and be received”
Invoking Shekhinah
“Visualize a silver light, /stroking your shoulders, /kissing your eyelids, / softly swirling /behind your neck…”
Vayera
“We have sacrificed our sons / and our daughters, / but G!d never asked us to.”
Lekh Lekha
“I walk mapless
from ignorance to truth,
from going to knowing.”
Bereishit
“We rested and we continued to change. / We were Creation.
We still are.”
It’s not Mar Heshvan
“When they arrived in Eretz Yisrael
they learned the Temple had been destroyed. / Some broke into deep tears / feeling this fresh loss.”
We Are Jane Doe
In support of victims of sexual assault, this new poem is inspired by the Yom Kippur Ashamnu Prayer
After The Harvest
“We forage for the last of the green, / Knowing that soon we will be living / on only what we’ve saved.”
Simkhat Torah War
“Air raid sirens the only psalms now sung / in this land of too many Gods.”
Prayer for Coming Out As Transgender
A responsive prayer for someone who is coming out and a supportive community
