Mizrahi Food, American Kitchen: Making Mashka Duah for Shavuot
Recipe for Persian frittata and Mashka Duah for ShavuotShavuot is the holiday fifty days after Passover and commemorates when the Israelite liberation from Egypt culminates with the giving of the Torah. Traditionally, Jews study in an all-night study session, eat dairy products (one interpretation is that the Torah is like milk to us), and read both the Ten Commandments and the Book of Ruth.
For the City G-d Built
“and so we forget our own house / and walk in g-d’s”
A Ritual Before Meeting with Your Beit Din for Conversion
“May I feel belonging and chosenness in all spaces.”
Yesod in the Land: Parshat Behar-Bechukotai
“We are connected / Below the surface of the land”
As We Light the Shabbat Candles
“May the light of the 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. candles cause us all to see each other as part of our shared community”
Unknowable
“God yearns to be known”
Prayer for Those Lost at Mount Meron
Prayer for those who lost their lives in the Mount Meron stampede on Lag B’OmerA spring festival. According to tradition, the plague which killed many of Rabbi Akiba's students lifted on the 33rd day of the Omer. Thus, while the Omer is observed as a period of mourning, mourning is lifted on Lag B'Omer. It is a popular day to get married (the only one during the Omer, according to Ashkenazic practice: from that day forward, according to Sephardic and modern liberal practice). The holiday is traditionally celebrated with bonfires, and three-year-old boys receive their first haircut. Today, some three-year-old girls will also have their hair cut amidst celebration on Lag B'Omer., April 29, 2021
A Prayer of Forgiveness
“We forgive to heal ourselves”
Blessing For Taking Off Masks
The emotions surrounding the act of seeing each other face-to-face again are overwhelming
Prayer for the 17-Year Cicadas
“The 17-year-cicada knows nothing / of this mess we’ve made”
