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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.

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“You can forgive yourself”

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The LIMBIC system controls the behavioral and emotional responses that we need to survive: feeding, reproduction, caring for our young, and fight or flight responses.
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“Praise the nurses. Praise the doctors / Praise oxygen. Praise air.”

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“I pray for all of us / That our day / Not be, please God / Too far away.”
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Full recording and resources from pandemic anniversary event

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“Blessed are You who distinguishes between life and death”

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“Let your whole range of emotions surround you and wash over you like the water”

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“Wonder at the return of clarity and energy …”

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“Each has gazed at many mountains / Over this past year; / Peaks of the infected, / Deserts of the isolated.”

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“The kaddish’s peace is a growing, ever-expanding gift”

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