Cooking in a New Kitchen

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We may leave our homes and kitchens as many of our ancestors have, but the connection that a recipe can provide, especially those inherited from our Mothers (parents or significant […]

Omer 2019: Week 1

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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