Topic Tags: community

“This is the year the answers can’t be simple, won’t come / quickly.”

“Especially on Yom Kippur — we are singing for our lives in community.”

“Sometimes I want to weep for the loss of so many…”

We, human beings,  share in the diversity of this garden we call home. And we are all blessed and strengthened by it.

“Holy One of Blessings, I’m returning to my sleep away camp; / my happy place; my holy ground…”

“There are ashes sunken within us / in places that feel too deep to touch…”

May the bright weekly Shabbos lights, / dispel darkness of the Jewish global crisis…”

“When I raise my voice in anger, help me see the Divine Spark in my opponent.”

Without a Jewish calendar, what does Jewish life entail?

A complete ritual for a family to bury the new child’s placenta under a plant in the garden.