Type: Poem

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What It Means to be Loved

Poem of gratitude on healing from illness with the support of a partner
  • by Tiferet Welch
gratitude, healing, illness, love
light skinned man with short brown beard with arm around woman in black shirt with short brown hair shown from the back

Tevet: A Liberation in Knowing

“Jacob teaches, / We weave / And reweave, / The narratives / Of our lives”
  • by Tiferet Welch
healing, kabbalah, trauma
three candles glowing orange yellow in the dark

The Lights in December

“For a short while the lights mingle harmoniously”
  • by Aryana Rayne
candle lighting, winter
lighting all white hanukkah candles in window with reflection of candles

First Hanukkah Without Mom

“For the first time / I will miss / The Hanukkah lights”
  • by Twilla Tiferet Welch
grief, mourning
nine candles lit against black background

Fading Light on the Eighth Night

“I look to the next candle in line, / still alive with yellow glow and hope”
  • by Dick Westheimer
candle lighting, hope
fully lit hanukkiyah in the dark with another hanukiyah in the background that appears to be a reflection of the first

On the second night of Hanukkah the miracle is Ukraine

“On the land / we were forbidden to light / candles, they now burn / under rocket-fire”
  • by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
hanukkah, Ukraine
close up of five hanukkah candles burning in the dark

Vayeshev: Seen From Afar

“We never threw our brother / into a well, but coveted / his stories and dreams”
  • by Cathleen Cohen
dream, family
waves rippling and crashing to shore

Ceremony: For Sandy Hook, After 10 Years

“Teach us to spin apart the light in this dark.”
  • by Rabbi Annie Lewis
grief, mass shooting, Sandy Hook, Uvalde
person holding lit tea light candle near rows of other lit tea lights

Vayeshev

“What if we looked back on every / misery, if not with gratitude, / then with awe?”
  • by Jodi Rosenfeld
young man wrapped in colorful blanket climbing mountain in the desert

If My Struggle Were An Angel

“I would lean into the darkness”
  • by Alisa Fineman
angels
silhouette of person walking in desert toward sunset

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