This Prayer is a Tree
If a prayer is recited in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? This Prayer is a Tree…
Read articleMy Life in Yours
About four years ago I wrote a love song. As I strolled alone along Jerusalem’s old railway walking path, these words simply appeared. Strange. I wasn’t…
Read articleBind Our Hearts
Mazal Tov to my daughter Nikki Braziel-Solovy and her man Prometheus Kevin Trotsky on their engagement. This wedding day prayer alludes to the sheva brachot –…
Read articleGrouchy, a Love Prayer
This prayer is written to be a reminder of love when love has been temporarily forgotten. It’s to be used when kindness and care have been…
Read articleFinding My Beshert
Here’s a new prayer for finding a life partner, a “beshert.” More people have asked me to write on this topic than all others combined. It’s been…
Read articleA Heart of Love
What’s the response to spiritual heartbreak, to the deep longing that remains when G-d seems distant? This prayer/poem combines the vision of the spiritual traveler with…
Read articleSummon My Heart
G-d is all around us, in every moment and every breath. Yet the Holy One of Old still calls us to seek and discover the glory…
Read articleA Heart That Hears
Combine the vision of the spiritual traveler with the voice of admonishing prophet and the result is a stark warning about the dangers of the mystical…
Read articleIn Memory of an Organ Donor
This is a Yizkor prayer for those who have become organ donors in death. The last sentence is the classic ending of a Yizkor prayer. In this…
Read articleWe Share the Same Pain
This is an invitation, an invitation to men to bond as equals, as brothers, as friends, sharing our deepest pain and our deepest fear. It’s posted…
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