Posts tagged ‘bringing tikkun olam’

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…

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Noach: 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…

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Fire 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…

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When 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…

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To 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,…

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Noach: 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…

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The 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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