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Kindle our moral imagination / so that our souls might sense / that redemption is still possible.
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Please God / Extinguish the flames of this burning palace with / The soothing waters of love.
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May this call of the shofar be a bridge between Olam Hazeh and Olam Haba
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Dear God do not hold yourself silent; be not deaf or still dear God. / Be not deaf or still, dear heart.
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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
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A service written for Tisha B’Av 2018 at Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, VA
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Reflection prompts for the seven weeks between Tisha B’Av and Rosh Hashanah using the sefirot
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“She mourns because her children have forgotten each other…”

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

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A midrashic tale of how twelve sisters, representing each of the twelve months, gather to mourn on Tisha b’Av

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