Posts tagged ‘friends’

Vayishlach 5775: Family Healing

In this week’s Torah portion, Jacob attempts to reconcile with his brother. This is a prayer for healing family wounds. Much as Jacob prepared to encounter…

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Quick Blessing for a Friend’s Departure

What can I say when a friend departs? When his journey moves on? When her path and mine diverge? For me, these moments are rich with…

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Mother’s Meditation

This prayer is to be said by mothers with children who have begun their independent lives. It’s the companion piece to “Father’s Meditation.” The two prayers…

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Father’s Meditation, Revised

This prayer is to be said by fathers with children who have begun their independent lives. It’s a revision to a prayer of the same name.…

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Family Healing

This is a prayer for healing family wounds. Choices to tailor the prayer to particular situations are in [brackets]. Use this or other language to describe…

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Vayeira: 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…

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Messengers

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…

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For Family

This prayer is about remembering the love of family and the desire to heal the wounds that can come between us. A quick note about the…

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Prayer Moments in Israel

Three moments from my wanderings in Israel: Shabbat afternoon in Netanya. I’m at a lovely lunch with a group made up primarily of long-time olim who went through an…

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On Connecting With Old Friends

I wrote this prayer last year when Stephen found me online, 35 years or so after we went to Israel together on an AZYF trip. Here in Israel,…

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