Chayei Sarah 5775: Who Walks So Near
This is a prayer of gratitude for love, inspired by this week’s Torah portion, Chayei Sarah, which includes the meeting and the union of Isaac and…
Read articleThe Details of Beauty
A gift for Shabbat. A reminder. A reminder for those in sorrow and grief, those who are tired, numb and especially to those who’ve run…
Read articleInside the (Hanukkah) Light
This meditation carries an echo of Hanukkah. It’s about seeing, feeling and loving the light shining around us, and our yearning to be a source of…
Read articleJerusalem: A Meditation, Revised
I wrote this two years before becoming a Yerushalmi, a Jerusalem resident. This revision shifts the tone slightly, while maintaining the essential view of Jerusalem as…
Read articleThe Season of Counting
This is a meditation on counting. Counting as a spiritual practice is a reminder to stay present in the current moment, the task at hand and…
Read articleLamps Within
This is a new meditation for Hanukkah about bringing the light we carry inside of ourselves into the world and lighting the lamps of awe and wonder…
Read articleThe Season of Dedication
When I was a boy the central miracle of Hanukkah didn’t impress me. One day’s worth of oil burned for eight days. A miracle, sure, but…
Read articleVayeira: Messengers
“And Adonai appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he (Avraham) was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day; and he…
Read articleMessengers
This is a prayer about those people we meet along the way who are reminders of how G-d wants us to live, with outstretched hands and…
Read articleBe’chol Lashon (In Every Tongue)
This prayer celebrates diversity in Jewish life. It honors the work of Be’chol Lashon (In Every Tongue) by envisioning a time when we look beyond our differences…
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