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.
Tofu, ice cream, beer, and liquor are new symbolic foods that reference this past year
Ritual to do at home with a bowl of water and ice
“This morning / the password for / my daughter’s class / doesn’t work”
“Good Yuntif, dear kitchen table”
Tashlikh ritual to be performed in the bathroom or using bowl of water
“This year / I see you from a distance …”
A Rosh Hashanah seder for times of pandemic
“Let imagination flow through these portals”
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