Receiving Blessings
This prayer is about opening my heart to receive blessings. Why? For me, it is easier to bless than to accept the blessings of others. Even…
Read articleElijah
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 articleRelease Me
Here’s a new prayer for Passover, which echoes the theme of two of my other Pesach offerings, “Egypt Inside” and “Breaking Bonds.” It’s about yearning for…
Read articleThree Years of Prayer
Jerusalem, 22 March 2013 I don’t believe in coincidences. Today is the third anniversary of launching this site, of living my mission to bring holiness into…
Read articleLet Us Meet
This is a prayer of invitation. “Let us meet,” Ancient One, in the place where “Your radiance shimmers across creation.” Where is that? Everywhere. I use this…
Read articleAfter Writing a Prayer
Here’s a prayer to be said after writing a prayer. The intention is to express gratitude for the ability to be of service to G-d and…
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Here’s a prayer to be said before writing a prayer. The intention is to achieve the kavanah, the spiritual mindset, necessary to serve G-d by writing…
Read articleInvitations
What is prayer? Perhaps it’s an invitation to holiness and healing, bending the light from heaven toward tikkun olam. This is a meditation on prayer, a…
Read articleNoach: The Flood
What flood — what flood of emotion, of grief, of tragedy, of fire or water — tore through your life? Was there a lifeboat? A meditation inspired…
Read articleThe Cut that Heals
In the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall, on a sunny, breezy, Jerusalem afternoon, I saw a young woman wearing a deep blue shoulderless top reading an…
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