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.
“May they be met every day with the gratitude and the support that they deserve”
“Maybe it was a niggun / That taught God how to speak”
Mi Shebeirakh for those suffering from domestic abuse
Singing together in harmony virtually
Blessing for acknowledging our obligations to keeping each other safe and healthy
“Please, Adonai, bring about new beginnings”
“Whose ballot shall be counted, and whose ballot shall be disqualified”
“Shekhinah, our Mother, would understand”
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