Bubbles and Buttercake

“When I think of my mother / I still smell her butter cakes…”
A Kavanah for the Month of Tamuz

A reflection for this season of rupture, reckoning, and return.
A Prayer for Groundedness in Troubled Times

Rabbi Deborah Waxman offers a prayer for groundedness and grace.
May They Be Safe

A meditation on safety
A Short Prayer Against War

“May the power of the many outweigh the hubris of the few…”
A Prayer for Ending the Work Week

“Help me remember there is a world outside the computer…”
Daily Connecting With Shekinah Holy Presence

This new poem and ritual integrates a morning practice and the Priestly Blessing.
A Kavanah for Peaceful Protest: For Those Rising Up in a World on Fire

Let this be our prayer.
Let this be our stand.
Let this be our refusal
to accept empire as sacred,
or militarism as holy.
A Father’s Blessing

“May Hashem bless you more each year…”
Prayer in Times of Uncertainty

“Fill each of us with Your Holy Presence and with the light of hope…”