Type: Poem

“In covenant I heed tzedek’s demand: / That justice cannot mend what is unhealed…”

“we can rise above the instincts that divide us / and discover the holiness that binds us together.”

“Set us free to wander again / where all journeys end in wonder…”

“When we expect sweetness to be given / to us from above instead of doing the work  / ourselves to make our lives sweeter?”

“In the quiet days after Tisha B’Av,  the shofar is still wrapped in / silence /waiting to be retrieved…”

“Elul is a bridge crossed in the fullness of summer, a path we begin to clear toward our imagined future.”

“We take a breath / in silence and then / a shofar blower / pierces the summer night / with a wailing cry for justice, for wholeness, for redemption / and release.”

“The day we create / The soul in mercy returned / The heart, even so, / forgiving and forgiven”

“My viscera / cannot distinguish / between the extinguishing / of one life in particular…”

“I am offered no mask, no armor, only a ticket and the instruction to keep walking…”