Topic Tags: Israel

“Help our hearts heal so we can find the strength / to forge a new road and find a way to live in peace…”

A meditation on safety

“May the power of the many outweigh the hubris of the few…”

“And cry to Heaven—bring them home/No soul should ever weep alone…”

Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael wrote this prayer of comfort after Oct. 7, 2023.

“my memory reaches back / to the Galilee hills and carob trees…”

“limbs and tangled hair and soft center / walking ropy curls around herself in a fog…”

“The wilderness ahead blurs into an unknowable future…”