Give Love Wings
A new prayer about the holiness of love. Give Love Wings Give your love wings To soar with the music and the prayers That dance between…
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 articleSweet Cake
For Rosh Hashanah, my secret recipe for sweet cake is this song of the spiritual traveler, an extended metaphor that shimmers with hope and prayer. It’s…
Read articleThe Gifts of Our Lives
This new prayer of gratitude includes an alphabetical acrostic. Acrostics were a mainstay of Jewish liturgical poems, known as piyutim. This piece combines the acrostic with a four-part…
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 articleUnseen Lands
Adventure. Joy. Love. Holiness. Gratitude. These are the themes tied into this short meditation on the joy and beauty of moving physically through the world and…
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This is another song of the spiritual traveler, an extended metaphor that shimmers with hope and prayer. It’s more of a yearning than a classic prayer,…
Read articleIn This Turning: A New Year’s Day Meditation
This is a New Year prayer about love. Why? Those of us who are alone yearn for a partner. Those of us in relationships need to…
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