Blessed Fierce Mystery We give thanks for the opportunity to live up to our covenant, To live in Wholeness with the deepest self And to create a society that embodies that. We give thanks for the forgiveness that must come When we fail, as we will. Together we feel good, because we are stubborn, because […]
I am so blessed in my annoying friends: Those women and men who will not let me sink, Who text me every day, Who insist on knowing if I’ve made those phone calls, Written that essay, Applied for that job, Asked for much needed help. I kept thinking it would get better. This couldn’t be […]
(can be read in public once contracts have or are being signed) Levite: Blessed be Ruach HaOlam, Breathing Us In and Breathing Us Out, Help me with my obligations as a Levite for my congregation. May I serve my community to the best of my ability with hard work and creative problem solving. May I […]
We can see the stars in the sky Through the slats covering the roof of the sukkah. And as metaphors go, that’s apt. But it’s Sukkot and Today we;re celebrating the mysterious vertical God: The God of Heaven, The God of the Harvest. God, all the way from Down here to the mysterious far Up […]
The fourth benediction in the Birkat HaMazon, The Blessing After the Meal, Is the hatov vehamaytiv. It is also recited upon, Among other reasons, Hearing good news concerning others and For the drinking of a second cup of very good wine: May each good thing be like that second cup of wine. Even better than […]
Inside the Holy of Holies, I see An empty room. There is a roof on top of four walls And a door but no windows. We declare the inside, divine And the outside, mundane. This is arbitrary but okay with me, I like holy separation. Inside the Holy of Holies, I see Judgement. God speaks […]
Be safe, Be warm, Be dry, Be alive. Be useful, Be attentive, Be mindful, Be whole. Blessed Fierce Mystery, Aware of the danger And fear And the possibilities of hope and succor, We give thanks for all those who respond And pray for all those who need rescue. We pray that we will not be […]
(leader) I feel the Presence Of what today I call God Tomorrow I may call nature– The Fierce Mystery All around us, This connection that must know everything because it is everything. During Elul we must confess to people before we confess to God And perhaps on Rosh HaShana LaBehama we must confess to animals […]
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At the start of this parsha, the Hebrews are passing through Moab on the way to Canaan and the king of Moab, Balak, sees them and is afraid. He sends messengers to the pagan priest, Balaam, and they say on behalf of Balak, There is a people that came out of Egypt; it hides the […]
Praise the morning blessings of the Birchat HaShachar, Praise the songs of the Pzeuki Zimra, Praise the Names of the Hatzi Kadish, Praise the Infinite Eternal of the Barchu, Praise the light and the darkness of the Yotzer. And between and within them, Yishtabach. Praise tiktok takipçi satın al Praise the sounds of praising And […]
A tallit is just a piece of cloth But when you put fringes on the four corners It becomes a fulfillment of a Jewish mitzvah. The fringes are just strings But when you knot them together and attach them to the tallit They are all of our complicated questions for the Torah and Talmud. And […]
Emor By Trisha Arlin This week’s parsha is Emor, Speak, a command to Moses from God, Eh-mor el haCohanim, Speak to the priests. What follows is a series of rules that Moses must pass on. In chapter 21, God has Moses lay down the rules for the priests, the cohanim, on how not to defile […]
We count the Omer for seven weeks, 49 days:The loving kindness and benevolence of Hesed;The strength and holy limitations of Gevurah;The spiritual balance and beauty of Tiferet;The eternal endurance of Netzach;The prayer and intellectualism of Hod;The gateway of Yesod, collecting all of these sefirot and transmitting them toMalkhut, the end of the chain, our human world. Malkhut of Malkhut – It is the culmination.This […]
Barukh Kadosh Hu, Blessed One-ness, On this Day 36 of the Omer, Hesed of Yesod, Love of Foundation, Compassion for the Underpinnings, I love Structure. Yesod is life, it is everywhere. It is Ritual, the points along the journey, The beginning and the middle and the end, The liminal gateway, The container, The funnel, The candle lighting […]
In the divine and simple love of One-ness That is the foundation of Love It is really good To be part of a community of people Who want to be kind to each other. tiktok takipçi satın al Sometimes that’s more aspirational for us than achieved, But here, with our Hesed secure in this solid place of Yesod, […]
We wash our hands to separate ourselves from the every day And announce to our bodies, This moment is different! This is not a casual stuffing of our faces With any convenient tasty mess. This food is special! Each upcoming bite will be a prayer. Antalya seksi escort Each new story will be […]
Baruch Kodesh Hu Blessed Holy One-ness, tiktok takipçi satın al We give thanks for the Dusk And the setting sun Which brings on our maariv prayers. May they be delightful and full of meaning. We give thanks for the Evening That sends us home, Our place of safety in the darkness. May […]
I am of the Breath of the Universe And each breath is a prayer. tiktok takipçi satın al I breathe in oxygen I breathe out carbon dioxide. The earth breathes in the carbon dioxide And breathes out oxygen. The earth and I breathe And pray Together In One-ness. My breath is a prayer with the […]
Look at us Standing at Sinai Gathered together at the foot of a mountain to meet God. Seriously? It’s too much to take in Too big to describe Like this mountain. Maybe it’s just a useful metaphor: A mountain of the needy and the suffering that we ignore every day? Or a mountain of guilt, […]
Blessed One-ness Eternal Blessed HaMavdil,Dividing time into years and months and days: We imagine that long ago We might have been afraid When the moon disappeared. It was so dark at night Like the end of the world. We howled at the empty sky And then, like a miracle, A sliver appeared. Whatever arrives, leaves,Whatever […]
In a small village of destitute slaves Watched over by nasty Egyptians The kind who worship animals, Like lambs, Antalya olgun escort And who will kill you if they find you with one of their sacred beasts. And Moses says, “You shall take a lamb to a family” “You shall keep watch over it until […]
For those who plan and strategize,For those who gather at a moment’s notice,For those who serve as witnesses,For those who are civil and disobedient,For those who speak up at local meetings,For those who wear pink hats with millions,For those who contribute in bursts,For those who make it their life’s work,For those whose bodies keep them […]
Blessed Holy WholenessWe march togetherHoping to be heard,Hoping to be seen. And even if our opposition cannot do so,We hear ourselvesWe see ourselvesAnd gather courage from our numbers. May this march be a first stepOn the long road of resistanceAnd when we go homeMay the hard work continue Blessed Holy WholenessWe March together.May we be […]