Today We Are all Priests: A Communal Confession and Granting Forgiveness for Yom Kippur
Three Confessions I confess my own sins. I have made mistakes, I have chosen selfishly, I have hurt others, I have held grudges. I have done damage in the world. […]
I in the Sukkah
I in the Sukkah body circumscribing soul a temporary shelter on good days happy here labor good and fruit delicious but when rain gets in peeking through the veil of […]
Psalm 27: An Elul Redux
the stronghold /
is a brook /
that babbles inside our selves
Waiting at Sinai: Visualization for Rosh Hashanah
Can you imagine the multitudes, the incredible sea of us?
Reading for Elul
Even if you remembered to buy local, organic honey, there is no readiness for the work to come.
Rosh Hodesh Elul: A Shiviti Return and Renewal
A meditative chant for Elul and the Yamim Noraim. Best if played on repeat: Shuv, shuvi teshuvah Turn and return to who you are
Tisha B’Av to Rosh Hashanah: Seven Weeks
Reflection prompts for the seven weeks between Tisha B’Av and Rosh Hashanah using the sefirot
For These Things I Weep: A Lament Delivered at ICE Offices
These public remarks were delivered by Rabbi Tamara Cohen in front of ICE offices in Philadelphia on Tisha B’Av 5778 (July 22, 2018). They were reformatted into poetic form by […]
“Bitterly She Weeps In the Night”: Voices of Exiles and Refugees, Past and Present
Text sheet that takes a few lines of each chapter of Eikha and puts a parallel quote from an immigrant parent separated from their children.
The Temple of Our Humanity: A Poem for Tisha B’Av
“She mourns because her children have forgotten each other…”
