Vidui: Confession of Sins Against the Future
“We signed on to a covenant: / If we take care of the earth / it will take care of us.”
Lights Out
“Time for your / soul to take flight, time for your soul / to light a new star.”
My Cup
“Carefully, I grope in the dark to find my cup. / This cup dwells within.”
Looking to the Future So We Can Look to the Past
I wish for you an Elul that is full of future-tense language.
Initiating the Fast of Yom Kippur: The Final Cup of Water
A water ritual for beginning the fast of Yom Kippur
Called to Respond: the Magic of the Shofar
An Elul 5783 teaching by Rabbi Janet Madden
The Shofar
“The silent air before it is blown
into sound inside the horn of a beast…”
Welcoming Shabbat
“the door will open, / the Shekhinah and her entourage of angels /
will enter our temple in time.”
This Burden of Rest–Meditation After a Broken Bone
“After the pain settles, and swear words stop, /I am left with healing of my body. / But healing of body takes time…”
Once More to the Altar
          On the third day Abraham looked up and saw… bits of brown, stony ground; a path that wound up. What we haven’t been through, we two. Our hands, bound together, […]
