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 articleRhythm and Grace
This is another song of the Spiritual Traveler, calling on each of us to hear the music that surrounds us and to feel the power that…
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 articleChoosing to Heal
Sometimes, healing from pain and trauma is a matter of making a choice. Not an easy choice, by any means, but a simple one: to walk…
Read articleThe Details of Beauty
A gift for Shabbat. A reminder. A reminder for those in sorrow and grief, those who are tired, numb and especially to those who’ve run…
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 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 articleVa’eira: Your Name, Meditation at Dusk
“And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: ‘I am the LORD, and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as G-d Almighty,…
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