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Lamentation for Hosea son of Nun

“And I mourn for you, / I cry, oh soul ancestor.”
  • by Rachav
ancestors, peace, Rachav, torah
an old olive tree with many branches and green leaves providing shade

Tefilat Haderekh, A Prayer for the Journey

Every journey in life leads into the unknown.
  • by Merle Feld
ancestors, change, journey, tefilat haderekh, unknown
watercolor painting from the perspective of the middle of a river, with trees on the horizon

Blessing

The power to bless is the power / to choose.
  • by Elizabeth Caplun
ancestors, blessing, choice, freedom, power, powerlessness
five swallows, one with wings outstretched, sit on a thin branch of a tree with small red leaves

Baking Cakes for the Queen of Heaven

My husband stokes the fire / with wood the children gathered / I knead the dough – / an offering for the Source of all
  • by Alex Carter
ancestors, baking, family, Goddess, offerings, oneness, transformation
green olives on an olive tree

A Prayer for the Hopeless

Let me remember my breath on the wind as / Fragile / Fleeting / Precious
  • by McKenzie Wren
ancestors, mortality, resilience
Artwork of two women as shadows facing each other

Kol Isha, Shira Isha

  • by Ariel Neshama Lee
ancestors, matriarchs, mothers
an older hand and younger hand embracing

L’dor V’dor

“One time, we tried to learn a line dance / where we linked arms in order of the generations…”
  • by Jodi Rosenfeld
ancestors, family, grandparents, Yiddish
an elderly person's hand touches a baby's foot

In the Light of the Candles

  • by Gabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer
ancestors, candle lighting, hanukkah, light, Shekhinah
candle flames melt down in a hanukkah menorah

Evacuation Orders

  • by Elizheva Hurvich
ancestors, Israel, refugees, war
a family heirloom photo

The Unanswered Questions

“I cannot be soothed / because there are / no moral answers…”
  • by Janice
ancestors, Israel, war
a woman looks up at the sky, hands in prayer at her heart

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