Topic Tags: tisha b'av

“Your struggle is your strength”

We cry today until we too are parched and empty / We cry until despair and cynicism and immobilizing fear are washed away

In all of our history, / With all that we have been through, / The month of Av does indeed stand alone …

Kindle our moral imagination / so that our souls might sense / that redemption is still possible.

Please God / Extinguish the flames of this burning palace with / The soothing waters of love.

May this call of the shofar be a bridge between Olam Hazeh and Olam Haba

Dear God do not hold yourself silent; be not deaf or still dear God. / Be not deaf or still, dear heart.

A new ritual of creating a daily embodied spiritual practice for the liminal period of Sefirat Ha’Aveilut/the counting of grief, in the nine weeks between Shavuot and Tisha b’Av

A service written for Tisha B’Av 2018 at Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, VA

Reflection prompts for the seven weeks between Tisha B’Av and Rosh Hashanah using the sefirot