Pray: The Gift of Torah
May 9, 2023
With Shavuot just around the corner, chant or just take in Kaila Shabat’s prayer honoring a personal encounter with a physical Torah and all it represents.
With Shavuot just around the corner, chant or just take in Kaila Shabat’s prayer honoring a personal encounter with a physical Torah and all it represents.
Devor Spier’s prayer/poem for the counting of the Omer decries racist and antisemitic violence.
Tiferet Welch offers a metaphysical prayer in connection with the counting of the Omer.
In this prayer, Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein reminds us that it is “very easy to destroy, but infinitely harder to build. May we remember that there is no future for any of us without all of us.”
This ritual for Passover Yizkor uses the elements as metaphors for memory, grief and stability.
Rabbi Jen Gubitz’s poem prepares us for Passover Yizkor, evoking memory, joy and loss intoned to the rhythm of the Jewish calendar.
With Passover just around the corner, we turn to Yocheved, whose voice does not appear in Exodus, but thanks to Rabbi Sonya K. Pilz, it can be heard loud and clear in this moving poem.
For some of us, our days are divided into two (or three or four) cups of coffee. Shaul Kelner’s original blessing helps imbue a daily ritual with holiness.
Written for Israel’s most recent anniversary, this revised prayer by Rabbi David Seidenberg feels especially relevant as Israel spirals into civil unrest in violence. “Rescue all of Your land, from the Jordan River to the sea, from the spilling of blood, and all of her inhabitants and sojourners.”
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