Music for Pervasive Peace: A New Liturgical Song for Rosh HaShanah
This Rosh HaShanah — as the specter of another socially-distant holiday looms — let’s renew our dreams of peace, a pervasive peace encompassing wholeness, health, renewal,…
Read articleTwo Prayers to End 2020 and Start 2021
This is a two-prayer liturgy to end 2020 and start 2021, combining my Rosh Hashanah 5780 prayer “Pervasive Peace” with my Rosh Hashanah 5781 prayer “Wildly…
Read articleWildly Unimaginable Blessings: A Prayer for 5781
This new Rosh Hashanah prayer — written this morning — is a response to Covid-19. Since March, since the reality of pandemic and plague struck our…
Read articleAnother Year: An Introspection
For the New Year: a meditation on the passage and the use of time. Have I spent this time wisely? And what have I learned? This prayer appears…
Read articleLet this Day
As we move from celebrating the arrival of a new secular year to living day-to-day, here’s a prayer about making the most of our time here…
Read articleThe Greatest Sin
The High Holiday Vidui – the Jewish confessional prayer – contains a broad list of transgressions. This meditation suggests that the greatest sin of all is failure…
Read articleMeditation on the Eve of a New Year
A new meditation — written this morning — as the year 5774 comes to an end. May 5775 bring hope, blessing and peace. Instructions for using…
Read articleGates
Standing before the gates of heaven in prayer – yearning for them to stay open long enough for true repentance to be heard – is a…
Read articleA New Year Begins
This prayer for the New Year is about seeing the joy and grief in life and deciding that kindness and love are the only answers. This…
Read articleRepentance Inside
What does it take to internalize a deep sense of repentance, so that real change is possible? What will it take to be the man G-d…
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