Type: Poem

“Move to the front—of the line—a voice says…”

A poem describing the ritual of removing the tzitzit from a dead person’s tallit and giving them to his or her beloveds prior to burial

“I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground./ So it is, and so it will be…”

“In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them.”

A poem describing the palpable absence of a dead mother

A poem about the journey of grief

A creative vidui to be recited at the bedside of a person near death

Giving the first gift, the gift of a name

A mother’s prayer for the health and well-being of her new baby and the wisdom to raise her

A modern poem based on biblical texts