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Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has shaken our lives. Many of us have experienced loss of loved ones, loss of income, illness, fear, isolation, frustration, fatigue. Some of us have put our lives at risk on the front lines as doctors and nurses, grocery workers, delivery workers, and other places of vulnerability. All of us are trying to cope and adapt to a new reality. We all suffer in different ways, and no one’s suffering is more important than anyone else’s. We are in this together. And we can help each other. Below are blessings, prayers, poems and rituals written during the pandemic: from graduation and b’nei mitzvah ceremonies to prayers for health care workers to blessings for handwashing. These resources offer healing, hope, meaning, structure, gratitude and joy during this fragile moment.

Latest Rituals

Putting on a face mask during pandemic is a sacred obligation

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“I connect to the needed blankness of sleep.”

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“how much I count / on seeing your face …”

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Things remain uncertain under this sun

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Ritual for acknowledging grief responses to coronavirus

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Looking forward to a safe return to camp

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Thank you flyer for U.S. postal workers during pandemic

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“I never understood / why you couldn’t just / let my people go”

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“I used to whisper evening prayers / Now I recite statistics”

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“in this plague spring …”

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