Topic Tags: holiness

“Feeling the stone rolling off the well, / I welcome / This new day.”

This new blessing for medical devices, such as insulin pumps and feeding tubes, and focuses on the mitzvah of shmirat haguf, taking care of one’s body.

To love an idea can be quite quite / satisfying but only the body, beloved, / is holy, holy, holy.

“Instead of color and shape and symbols or frame / I ponder what is holy…”

“There is holiness / in the face of a flower…”

A special tree inspires a sacred moment.

“I stand confident in the knowledge of my identity, / and am proud of my courage to claim it.”