Type: Poem

“Soon I will rise / to bear witness to you / once more in these ancient words…”

“I belong in a community—I want to communicate with stories & songs and food—let there be food, bitter and festive…”

What would you bring to the Mishkan?

“These are the blessings we learn from living in the world: / that loving other people /is loving ourselves.”

“Night will always become day / And day will come with answers…”

“To mark the haste with which we fled, / we now eat matzah for eight days”

“Yours is the earth, which blesses you in return.”

“What did it feel like to step over  that last sand dune one day after  walking forty years in the desert  and suddenly smell the sea?”

“How mighty is our God who hears our prayers /  and guides us through the / wilderness / of doubt and anxiety” 

“On the first day of Passover / we go for a walk on the beach…”