Ceremony: For Sandy Hook, After 10 Years
“Teach us to spin apart the light in this dark.”
Blessing of Love Celebrating the Respect for Marriage Act
“We celebrate the triumph / Of love over hate”
Vayeshev
“What if we looked back on every / misery, if not with gratitude, / then with awe?”
Reclaiming Our Hidden Light (Or Ganuz): A Shabbat Candle Lighting Ritual
New ritual and meditations after ShabbatShabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work. Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends. candle lighting
If My Struggle Were An Angel
“I would lean into the darkness”
Prayer for the World’s Turning: When a Revolutionary Soul Dies
“because you breathed / because you dreamed”
Let All That Breathes
“The red-tailed hawk, whose flight
is praise / bursts from the sky”
Blessing of Kislev
This poem emerged from an exploration of the component words of Kislev: kis (pocket) and lev (heart)
Maccabee Inside
“It isn’t only oil but / The flame of faith that burns”
This is the Time
“Creation happens through the dark”
