Posts tagged ‘Reading for the Passover Seder’

Shofetim: To the Streets

One of Torah’s famous instructions appears in this week’s parsha: “Justice, justice shalt thou pursue…” (Deut. 16:20) The context is establishing a legal system, but our ethos…

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Exodus, Again and Again

For Passover, a new prayer for peace and endurance in the face of existential threat, set in the context of history. It’s a reminder of our…

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To the Streets, Revised

This is a call to leaders to leave the safety and cloister of their institutions, to go into the streets to learn from the anguish of…

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Marvelous Gifts

For Passover, here’s a new meditation on using freedom in service to G-d and our fellow human beings while seeing the beauty and wonder around us.…

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Redeeming My Life

This is meditation on personal freedom, recognizing that we must first forgive ourselves for our own mistakes and misdeeds before we can fully express love and…

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Elijah, 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…

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Elijah

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…

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Release 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…

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To the Streets

This is a Passover appeal for each of us to work for social justice. It’s written in the voice of the admonishing prophet, exhorting us to…

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Against Poverty

This prayer is good for your Passover Seder and daily worship. It’s from my series “Against…” including: “Against Human Trafficking” and “Against Tyranny.” The idea for this series began…

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