Type: Poem

” Blessed are You, / Adonai, who spreads your sukkah of peace / over us…”

“May we enter the season / as we are, / and be received”

“Visualize a silver light, /stroking your shoulders, /kissing your eyelids, / softly swirling /behind your neck…”

“We have sacrificed our sons / and our daughters, / but G!d never asked us to.”

“I walk mapless from ignorance to truth, from going to knowing.”

“We rested and we continued to change. / We were Creation. We still are.”

“When they arrived in Eretz Yisrael they learned the Temple had been destroyed. / Some broke into deep tears / feeling this fresh loss.”

In support of victims of sexual assault, this new poem is inspired by the Yom Kippur Ashamnu Prayer

“Air raid sirens the only psalms now sung / in this land of too many Gods.”

“No wonder we dance seven circles around the bimah / with our lulav and our etrog and the Torah!”