Before Writing a Prayer
Here’s a prayer to be said before writing a prayer. The intention of the prayer is to achieve the kavanah, the spiritual mindset, necessary to serve…
Read articleReceiving Blessings
This prayer is my blessing for you for 2019. It’s about opening our hearts to receiving blessings. In this New Year, may we bless each other…
Read articleFalling in Love with Prayer
What is prayer? Perhaps an invitation to holiness and healing, bending the light from heaven toward tikkun olam. Have you ever fallen in love with a…
Read articleDance in the Sky
This meditation began as a flight of fancy, exploring the image of dancing with our prayers and blessings in the vast open space of sky. As…
Read articleTzav: Fire and Ash
Early in this week’s Torah portion we learn about tending the fire on the sacrificial altar, both the manner in which wood will be kindled and…
Read articleVayeshev 5775: For Humility
This week’s Torah reading shows the maturing of Joseph: from a boy who tattles on his brothers, flaunting his dreams and his special coat, to a…
Read articleFire and Water
Love and despair can be like fire. Truth can be like water, keeping the fires that fuel our emotions – the passions that make us human…
Read articleElijah, Revised
There’s a special kind of a hope, a kind of hope that opens the heart to our deepest yearning for a world of wholeness and love…
Read articleUmbrella of Blessings
Here’s a prayer in praise of G-d’s blessings. Why? By remembering the blessings around me – the blessings around my friends and family – my sight…
Read articleFor the Gift of Music, In Memory of Lou Reed
My prayer “For the Gift of Music,” reposted today in memory of Lou Reed. Here’s a favorite: “A Walk on the Wild Side.” This prayer from my series on…
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