Topic Tags: hope

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Adar

“There is always hope in Adar”
  • by Ann Kanter
Adar, Esther, hope, joy, Moses
two people holding open a scroll of esther (megillah)

Help Me

“Give me the strength to discover new ways to be”
  • by Betty Shapiro
healing, hope, Shekhinah
young woman with brown skin and long black hair standing in a forest looking up and slightly smiling

Fading Light on the Eighth Night

“I look to the next candle in line, / still alive with yellow glow and hope”
  • by Dick Westheimer
candle lighting, hope
fully lit hanukkiyah in the dark with another hanukiyah in the background that appears to be a reflection of the first

Adam v’Mayyim: The Prayer Becomes the Praying

“We are here / To find the cracks / At the edges of possibilities”
  • by Tiferet Welch
creation, grief, hope, yizkor
mountains sunrise fog clouds

Frail Hope

“Will my God turn on the light in this dark room?”
  • by Nick Pipitone
grief, hope
dandelion lying on pavement

When I Forget I Am Strong

Affirmations for courage
  • by Betty Pollack Shapiro
courage, hope
When I Forget I Am Strong

Feeding the Birds: Shabbat Shirah

It is a minhag (custom) of expressing gratitude to put out breadcrumbs for the birds on Erev Shabbat of Parshat BeShalakh.
  • by Rabbi Janet Madden
creation, hope
Feeding the Birds: Shabbat Shirah

Tomorrow

“Your birthright renews every breath”

  • by Steve Pollack
children, grandparents, hope
Tomorrow

Salakh

“I sweep away flaked remnants of hope”

 
  • by Tiferet Welch
creation, forgiveness, heart, hope, selikhot, tallit
Salakh

Four Worlds Ritual for Tisha B’Av: Remembering, Mourning, and Renewal

“May we honor the earth that has received the remnants of that which has been destroyed”

  • by Rabbi Debra Smith
breath, hope, mourning
Four Worlds Ritual for Tisha B’Av: Remembering, Mourning, and Renewal

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