Receiving 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 articleHow’s Your Prayer Life?
How’s your prayer life? That was the opening question from Rabbi Marc Soloway in our conversation on prayer and new liturgy for his podcast “A Dash…
Read articleFaith to Pray
What does it mean to pray, knowing that our prayers may not be answered? People fall ill. Friends die. Bad things happen to good people. This…
Read articleRise on Wings: A Prayer of Borrowing
Your prayer lifts mine. My prayer lifts yours. But what happens when there’s no “lift” left in my own prayer? Does my prayer weigh your prayer…
Read articleVayikra 5775: Salt and Honey
The second chapter of Vayikra (Leviticus) describes the “meal offering,” a voluntary offering often given by those too poor to afford an animal to sacrifice. The…
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 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 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 articleReceiving 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 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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