Type: Poem

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A Prayer for Shavuot

  • by Tiferet Welch
tikkun olam, torah
Person wrapped in a blanket watches the sun rise over mountains

Lift Up Your Heads, for Juneteenth

“We will sing for freedom, / clap our hands for freedom.”
  • by Julián Jamaica Soto
freedom, juneteenth, racial justice
man with outstretched arms silhouetted from behind, facing the sunrise

Freedom Moons

“…moons of freedom / blessing the nights.”
  • by Carolyn Litwin
freedom, juneteenth, racial justice
full moon over bushes in the night sky

Wrapping tefillin on a nursery log

  • by Yudel Huberman
nature, tefillin
large log with a tree growing from it

Mikveh Hamayim

“12 months of mourning, / Travelling, conjoined, / On our continuing / Separate ways.”
  • by Tiferet Welch
mikveh
dark water with bubbles of light

Iyar

“If we remember the daily count / will new paths open in the heavens?”
  • by Ann Kanter
Miriam, water
woman in profile standing on sand dune in the desert

Alchemy of Teshuvah

“May my words be embodied. / May my life be lived as prayer.”
  • by Tiferet Welch
Shekhinah, teshuvah
woman blowing a handful of confetti into the night

Sukkot in a western redcedar

“…I wish to take a redcedar frond, salal and spirea, and pacific crab apple and bring them together…”
  • by Yudel Huberman
nature, sukkah, tree
redcedar branches

Shabbat Meditation on the Juan de Fuca

“The next day, returning from a hike Shabbat afternoon, the time of ra’ava d’ra’avin, desire of all desires, a tune came to me, the Juan the Fuca nigun.”
  • by Yudel Huberman
nature, song
a pacific beach with a line of trees and a large rock

Therefore

An interpretive reading of the Ten Commandments
  • by Rabbi Nina Mandel
ten commandments
ten commandments on tablets in the desert

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Learning to Say "We": Writing Identity

In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.

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