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Ritual to acknowledge the complicated experience of feeling both gratitude and grief

Open book and a lined notebook with a pen on a gray surface.

“We do not disappear into nothingness”

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Ritual using water, salt and stones to symbolize grief

A bowl of assorted stones with one stone engraved with the word Remember in the center.
Dear God do not hold yourself silent; be not deaf or still dear God. / Be not deaf or still, dear heart.
a person's hands are cupping a lit candle
A new ritual of creating a daily embodied spiritual practice for the liminal period of Sefirat Ha’Aveilut/the counting of grief, in the nine weeks between Shavuot and Tisha b’Av
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A service written for Tisha B’Av 2018 at Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, VA
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