Topic Tags: prayer

The Reconstructionist version of the Mourner’s Kaddish.

Hear, O Israel / the prayer was dance / Adonai Eloheinu / there were no pews

As I bend / hanging laundry on the drying rack / my back twinges    but just a little

“Please one who receives, crack me open so all I do is open…”

“Hashem yereicham, Source of Mercy and comfort, be with us now…”

“Your dancing words / ground me…”

“May we all drive well through sun and clouds, and whatever else God has in store– and may we all, soon and safely, arrive.”

” “Blessed is the name that holds them all.”

“Prayer, the sacred blessing where all our limbs can be rewoven / returning us into our whole…”

“Modah Ani. I have been granted another dawn to reject despair…”