https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IY61A6W38U Rabbinical student Talia Werber reads her poem about, partially, how the lights of Hanukkah can inspire and sustain us through a winter of darkness. For Hanukkah, to Take Through the Winter I like to watch the flames against the wall, not the window. I like to watch the flames against
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66kUyaRbF5M Focusing intention on courage of all kinds, Rabbi Shelly Barnathan chants Mi Shebeirach, asking for all of us to experience the renewal of body and spirit.
Every week, Rabbi Alex Weissman, director of Mekhinah, and cultural and spiritual life at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, emails members of the college community with words of Torah. Here’s his email from Dec. 1, 2023. Dear RRC Community, In case it is not yet clear, I will now be sending
We all need more light in our lives. So this year, as you kindle your Hanukkiah, hold the intention to bring light to your day and to our world.
Rabbi Micah Geurin Weiss shares this D’var Torah from “Recking with Racism and Imagining a Path Forward” Weekend at Bet Am Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue.
Rabbi Haviva Ner-David shares all of the pain she is holding in this difficult moment before reciting her new poem “My Own Thinking Heart” and offering a creative writing prompt. Taken from Ritualwell’s Nov. 17 virtual gathering, “Holding Each Other.”
In this excerpt from Ritualwell’s weekly “Holding Each Other” gathering, Rabbi Janet Madden chants the Oseh Shalom and Mi Shebeirach prayers. Madden lovingly and soulfully expresses what so many yearn for: peace and healing.
At Ritualwell’s weekly “Holding Each Other” virtual event, Rabbi Alex Lazurus-Klein read two poems, one written during the Second Intifada and the other composed in the harrowing days following October 7.
https://vimeo.com/879636915/82bbf6be16?share=copyWe left the embrace of the sukkahfor the shelter of Shabbat HoshanaAnd they blasted away the wallHoshanaPlease reopen Your gates of salvationHoshanaCan anyone pick the lock?Hoshana For Your sake and Hoshana For oursHoshana For fathers gunned down in front of daughtersHoshanaFor mothers shielding the bodies of sonsHoshanaFor elders with caregivers bedsideHoshanaFor Amit who bandaged wounds in
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