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Latest Rituals

Prayer for Not Spending Holidays With People Who Harm You

may you be blessed / with radical refusal
  • by Devon Spier
child abuse, chosen family, holidays
a person is hiking in the woods on a foggy day

Psalm 27: An Elul Redux

the stronghold / is a brook / that babbles inside our selves
  • by Devon Spier
psalm 27, teshuvah, water
a brook runs along the middle of a field with mountains in the distance

Meditation on Self-Actualization and Tu B’Shvat

Imagining the human as tree

  • by Devon Spier
growth, life, trees, tu b'shvat
A row of tall trees stands in a lush, green landscape with hills in the background under a clear sky.

A Meditation for Rosh Hodesh Shevat

“the trees and we, too, did bloom”

  • by Devon Spier
Israel, rosh hodesh, trees, tu b'shvat, zionism
seedling

Prayer of Atonement: For Calendar Days that Have Harmed Human Beings

Is there holiness in the bounty that breaks and bereaves?

  • by Devon Spier
atonement, Columbus Day, mourning, thanksgiving
a person is crossing off days on a paper calendar

Choose Life: A Selikhot Blessing

As we prepare to trace the world’s beginnings, may we choose life

  • by Devon Spier
selikhot, suicide, teshuvah, violence
in the rain, hands holding a clump of dirt with a plant growing

Elul: The Shofar

A poem about what the blast of the shofar does to bring us out of past and present

  • by Devon Spier
Elul, rosh hashanah, shofar
a young person blows a shofar

Elul: A Prayer for Those Who Wrestle

A poem about spiritual mutiny for Elul

  • by Devon Spier
al het, Elul, God, vidui, wrestling
a person wraps their arm around another person as they sit looking out on a body of water with a boat in the distance