Read: Building a Family Sukkah
October 15, 2024
Writer Randi Rose offers tips for how to build a Sukkah, as well as reflections on the meaning of hands-on practice.
Writer Randi Rose offers tips for how to build a Sukkah, as well as reflections on the meaning of hands-on practice.
Rabbi Daria Jacobs-Velde describes, in advance of the High Holidays, how thinking about a certain name for God led to surprising insights and questions. Can each of us be more sovereign over the kingdom and universe inside us?
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.
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