Read: The Shofar Calls Our Souls
September 25, 2024
Sybil Sanchez Kessler’s poem reads like the blast of a ram’s home, a focused intention for the High Holidays and every day of the year.
Sybil Sanchez Kessler’s poem reads like the blast of a ram’s home, a focused intention for the High Holidays and every day of the year.
Poet Tiferet Welch invokes perhaps the most powerful and well-known of High Holiday liturgies to ask where she might find the hope to find comfort, truth and reassurance. The answer, it seems, is in silence.
Cathleen Cohen’s poem and watercolor painting are a call to rise above the fear that divides us and truly see our fellow human beings.
This poem by Rabbi Yael Levy reads like a shofar blast, a spiritual wake-up call to hear the wisdom within.
Rabbi Bec Richman teaches how the rituals of Elul, specifically hearing the shofar blast, rouse us from our routines, awakening us to take stock and set intention in advance of the High Holidays.
In this piece, developed in a Ritualwell Mussar poetry workshop, Bryan Schwartzman connects the pain of losing a family member on 9/11 with seeing the loss of life in Israel and Gaza — and makes an unexpected human connection.
Rabbi Shelly Barnathan’s poetic words of condolence to mourners speak powerfully to this raw moment.
Using the Yiddish word for wander, this experimental immersive theater piece and walking meditation uses a Ladino song to craft a soundscape that engages the listener’s heart and mind. It borrows from the tradition of walking around the block at the end of shiva.
Rabbi Jill Hammer offers a feminist Tisha B’Av tale, one that may help us find new appreciation for the beauties of the world, even as we mourn the sorrows.
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