One-by-One: A Prayer as the COVID Death Toll Mounts
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is approaching 100,000, as the world-wide death toll surpasses 350,000. This prayer was written at the request of the Central…
Read articleThe Blessing of Faces: A Zoom Prayer
This prayer is inspired by the array of faces of men I love on a Zoom call. It is, in fact, a poetic version of the…
Read articleSheltering in Place
In this strange and uncertain new era of COVID-19, here’s a prayer of gratitude and hope for our time sheltering in place. May we all know…
Read articleFor Creating a Home
This is a prayer about the spiritual aspects of creating a home. It can be used from the moment one conceives of the idea of creating…
Read articleOh You Hills, Oh You Sands
I wrote this after meditating on the sand dunes of the Arava, a rift valley in the southern Negev. The meditation was led by staff from Kibbutz…
Read articleThe Way Home
This is prayer about returning to the Land of Israel. It’s the antidote to a piece I posted two weeks ago called “To Find Home,” a difficult…
Read articleTo Find Home
Day five in Israel. After two days in Tel Aviv, I’m now in Haifa. On a solitary up-hill walk, it became clear that I’m here looking…
Read articleDwelling Place
A prayer/poem about the meaning of home, posted for Sukkot. To listen while you read, click on the triangle in the bar below. The entire text follows. Dwelling…
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