Topic Tags: shofar

“Together we will recite / the only prayer this New Year; / the prayer home.”

“May my past deeds, / The best and worst of me / Bring me back to the Wholeness…”

“With kindness, hope and strength Trusting in your process / May your insights become clear / Lifting you back to Divine Wisdom…”

“Let breath be the bridge from despair to hope…”

“Birth canal of sound / Twisting and spiraling through time and space…”

“Listen for the Silver Trumpet’s high notes…”

“The cries that carry / from one end  of the earth / to the other.”

Before beginning a writing project or before repairing a scroll, I speak out my verbal intention. But then I often stay still for an extra moment.

An Elul 5783 teaching by Rabbi Janet Madden

“The silent air before it is blown into sound inside the horn of a beast…”