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. […]
A Prayer for the Religious Left
The work of justice is the work of turning stone to flesh Learning and relearning Moment to moment Movement to movement. Â May the Spirit of G-d move with us […]
Prayer Upon Completing Creative Work
O holy Mother Muse 
If I were standing with you 
I would leave the spigot onto wonder open Offer up my separation. I would wear a big Bucharan hat on […]
The Presence of an Absence
There is a dark side to Purim, that upside-down, downside-up festival of masks and laughter. To innoculate us in advance against the break-through of that dark side, the rabbis long […]
And There Was Morning: A Prayer for New Zealand
The day returns stubbornly no matter the massacre the night before. The sun spreads itself indiscriminately through storm-worn clouds as though the innocent worshippers were still body-bound, blinking open their […]
