Type: Prayer

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Torah and Haftarah Blessings with Feminine God Language and Re-Gendered Hebrew

Torah and Haftarah blessings addressing the Divine as feminine
  • by Lori Sumberg
blessing, feminism, gender, Shekhinah, torah
open torah scroll

Prayer for One Entering Natural Organic Reduction

Prayer for transferring a deceased body for the process of “natural organic reduction,” also known as “human composting”
  • by Rabbi Seth Goldstein
burial, eco-friendly, environment
small tree shown far away in bright green field with blue sky and clouds

Finding My Voice as a Black Jew

“Can I speak to the people the way I speak to You?”
  • by Gabrielle Rosenthal
racial justice
black male Jewish person wearing a tallit and blue kippah, sitting in the pews of a synagogue, as a little black girl in a pink dress sits on his lap. He is wearing glasses and looking down at her. Other congregants are in the background.

Prayer for Israel between Demise and Rebirth

“May we remember that there is no future for any of us without all of us.”
  • by Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein
Israel, peace
view from above of the mediterranean coast at Jaffa

A Prayer for a Mass Shooting, Before You Know What is Going On

“When the time comes, grant us wisdom, fortitude and stamina.”
  • by Esther Teverovsky, MD
mass shooting
a woman in a ponytail silhouetted against a white wall

A Blessing for Adoption

“May God make you like our adopted ancestors”
  • by Rabbi Alex Braver
adoption, blessing
brown-skinned man and woman sitting in a wheat field with sun shining, holding cute toddler between them

This One Small Life: A Prayer of Gratitude for Our Scars

“God of creation, / I come before You / to offer thanks for my scars”
  • by Alex Carter
blessing, gratitude, healing
silhouette of person standing with arms spread out in front of the sea at sunset. the sky is multicolored with oranges and yellows and reddish purples and some clouds.

Ishtar-Lilith-Shekhinah

“We seek to embody your sacred passion, your wisdom, your strength”
  • by Kohenet Ruach D'vorah Grenn, Ph.D.
feminism, Shekhinah
woman in silhouette standing straight looking ahead with setting sun and dark gray sky in background and some trees

The Pandemic Yizkor

“This is the yahrzeit of the Life we lived before”
  • by Carol L. Skolnick
pandemic, yahrzeit, yizkor
young man in black t-shirt and pants shown from behind standing at curtained window, parting the curtain and looking outside. Curtain is a gauzy white and there is a black area to the right, creating a stark white and black effect to the scene.

Blessing for Concluding Breastfeeding

“my body has been a source of sustenance and nourishment for my little one”
  • by Rabbi Rachael Miller
blessing, breastfeeding, weaning
woman shown from afar sitting under tree with red leaves breastfeeding a baby. The woman is white with soft blond wavy hair.

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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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