Meditate: Numbering the Stars
May 30, 2023
This mediation asks us to imagine ourselves walking in the desert under a night sky, looking up at a canopy of stars.
This mediation asks us to imagine ourselves walking in the desert under a night sky, looking up at a canopy of stars.
It’s revelatory to hear the blessings for reading the Torah and haftarah recited in feminine God language.
Sivan Rotholz’s poem for Shavuot imagines a different kind of harvest, one where “we reap and reap but know not what or whether we sow.”
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.
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