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Ma’ariv Aravim to End a Challenging Day

“Blessed are You, / Eternal One / Who drapes the evening shadows / …And passes / Even the hardest day / To its end.”
  • by Spencer Szwalbenest
acceptance, awareness, hope
man standing on rocky beach at sunset

Mikveh for Release, Transitions, and Embrace of Whatever is Next

A mikveh ritual to mark the end of a challenging time.
  • by Rabbi Caryn Aviv
hope, liberation, mikveh, Shekhinah
hand underwater in pool

Collective Birkat HaGomel/et, June 2023

A blessing for a day with clean air.
  • by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit
climate crisis, environment, gratitude, hope, nature
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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

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Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah

In this study of the Zohar, Rabbi Margie Jacobs will guide you in exploring the Shekhinah, the feminine, immanent, indwelling Sacred Presence, through the use of art materials and reflective writing. Four sessions starting May 7, 2024. 

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