Quick Prayer for Compassion
Here’s another in my “Quick Prayer” series, short prayers focused on a particular topic. The last line includes a choice to use either Hebrew or English…
Read articleNoach: Always this Wonder
This is a prayer that our children remember pure joy of laughter and play. It’s a prayer that we remember our own innocence and love. After…
Read articleFire and Water
Love and despair can be like fire. Truth can be like water, keeping the fires that fuel our emotions – the passions that make us human…
Read articleWhen Peace Comes: A Meditation
Here’s another new prayer for peace in our land. I wrote this and another prayer for peace on behalf of the Central Conference of American Rabbis…
Read articleTo Win the Peace
With a ceasefire that appears to be holding, it’s time to pray an audacious prayer: a prayer to win the peace. It’s a prayer for security,…
Read articleNoach: The Flood
What flood — what flood of emotion, of grief, of tragedy, of fire or water — tore through your life? Was there a lifeboat? A meditation inspired…
Read articleThe Cut that Heals
In the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall, on a sunny, breezy, Jerusalem afternoon, I saw a young woman wearing a deep blue shoulderless top reading an…
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