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Topic Tags: freedom

Latest Rituals

Trouble the Water

“Sing a new / Song / Together / We can / We will / Reach the other side…”
  • by Rabbi Tsurah August
crossing the sea, freedom, passover
A serene river scene with still water, rocks in the foreground, and trees lining both banks under a clear sky.

The Echo of Freedom

“For every exile, every pain / A promise whispers once again…”
  • by Mikhail Lazarevich Gurfinkel
freedom, passover, seder
The Great Pyramid of Giza under a clear sky, surrounded by desert sand.

Erased

“Speaking is my right. / and until someone takes my voice, / I will continue to speak.”
  • by Brasha Smith
democracy, freedom, justice
Crowd at a protest, holding signs. Urban street setting with old buildings in the background.

Additional Amidah Blessings for Leading up to the Election

These new additions to the Amidah add created to recite leading up to the Presidential the election.
  • by Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg
Amidah, democracy, freedom, justice
scrabble tile letters spell out freedom

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

Only Moments into Our Wandering

“We are still only days into our wandering…” ;
  • by Brasha Smith
freedom, love, wandering
a person walkingthrough the desert, the sunset is ahead

Acheinu Prayer

“May the Holy Oneness hold us in the Light / so we may gaze upon the Sacred in each other’s eyes.”
  • by Ahava Lilith evershYne (she/her)
freedom, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, peace
a bird flies acriss a sky of clouds, some light and some dark

Why On This Night? Four Questions for 5784

“On this night, as we gather in our narrow places, / how can we not mourn the loss of our dear ones, those in captivity, those gone, those no longer our friends?”
  • by Carol L. Skolnick
4 Questions, freedom, hunger, passover
a cloudy sky looms over the desert

Lift Up Your Heads, for Juneteenth

“We will sing for freedom, / clap our hands for freedom.”
  • by Julián Jamaica Soto
freedom, juneteenth, racial justice
man with outstretched arms silhouetted from behind, facing the sunrise

Freedom Moons

“…moons of freedom / blessing the nights.”
  • by Carolyn Litwin
freedom, juneteenth, racial justice
full moon over bushes in the night sky
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