Recipe for a Life
In one of my writing fantasies, a famous chef proposes that we coauthor a cook book/prayer book. Yum. This will be the opening prayer. It was…
Read articleV’Zot HaBracha: Unseen Lands
As the Torah closes, Moses goes up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo. G-d shows him the land. He sees from afar. So much…
Read articleSweet Cake
For Rosh Hashanah, my secret recipe for sweet cake is this song of the spiritual traveler, an extended metaphor that shimmers with hope and prayer. It’s…
Read articleThe Rhythm of Wonder
This meditation about radical amazement was inspired during a class on Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. I wondered silently if it would be possible…
Read articleThe Way of Spices
Here’s a new song of the spiritual traveler. An extended metaphor, it’s about understanding the nature of each moment and taking those moments into ourselves as gifts.…
Read articleWild Broken Heart
This is meditation on the healing that comes from a certain wildness in each of us. It was inspired at the April 2016 New Warrior Training…
Read articleThe Gifts of Our Lives
This new prayer of gratitude includes an alphabetical acrostic. Acrostics were a mainstay of Jewish liturgical poems, known as piyutim. This piece combines the acrostic with a four-part…
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 articleSoul Shine
This meditation is about allowing our souls to fill our hearts, to fill our minds and to fill our bodies with the radiance of heaven, so…
Read articleNoach: Always this Wonder
This is a prayer that our children remember pure joy of laughter and play. It’s a prayer that we remember our own innocence and love. After…
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