V’Achshav Or
November 29, 2023
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.
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
Cathleen Cohen recites her new poem “Mirrors,” as part of Ritualwell’s October 19th virtual gathering, “Holding Each Other: Israel on our Hearts.”
Donate to Magen David Adom Magen David Adom Magen David Adom is Israel’s “Red Cross”. It has activated all 1,400 of its ambulances and is treating the wounded, often while under rocket attack and gunfire themselves. MDA EMTs are among the casualties. Your help is desperately needed to put more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAgf_zMxyzY The traditional Mitzvah of hafrashat Challah (“taking” or “separating” challah) refers to removing and burning a small piece of challah dough as a symbolic offering before baking (some people throw away that piece instead of burning). In the time of the ancient temple in Jerusalem the Israelites would give
