Topic Tags: tisha b'av

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

“She mourns because her children have forgotten each other…”

A new Tisha B’Av ceremony with lamentations for the Earth