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
Because I Can
First you place the shel yad on the upper arm No one dares look at her When it’s tight enough, say the blessing Someone turns and stares Wrap the strap […]
Mezuzah Prayer
G-d, I am full of love and gratitude for all your blessings. Thank you for presence of mind, for presence of body. Thank you for protection and comfort and ease. […]
