Haiku Seder
Visit each step of the seder with a Haiku
Shmorg with Wine, Horseradish, God, Family & Freedom
“Someone sneaking to the kitchen to warm the tzimmes / to ladle the soup, plate the brisket…”
Confetti Fallen from the Family Tree
A 5-part poem exploring family connections
when a sefira cries
“limbs and tangled hair and soft center / walking ropy curls around herself in a fog…”
Heartbroken at the Seder Table
“I celebrate because it is spring / the season when hope / pokes out of dark furrows…”
Singing for That Day: A Reading Before Hallel on Rosh Chodesh Nisan 5785
“The wilderness ahead blurs into an unknowable future…”
Pekudei
“I am comforted by a divine sense of wonder…”
HaHatunah (The Wedding)
“What do you mean by God? / asked the wind.”
The Echo of Freedom
“For every exile, every pain / A promise whispers once again…”
Kavanah and Blessing to Begin the Day for Queerness
Rabbi Lily Solochek’s prayer honors complex and vibrant gender identity.
