Please join me for six weeks of meaningful study on the themes of the High Holidays
Elul 5785 With thanks once again to Jewish Studio Project and Rabbi Jordan Braunig for the beautiful & inspirational daily writing prompts that revitalised my sacred writing practice Elul I: Meiatz’mo Elul 3: Shanah Elul 4: I Am Not Done Elul 5: Return Us Back to This Elul 9: High on Love
May there always besummer nights where cultured people appreciate culture and gather murmuring sighs and politely clapping for talented hands and feet and voicesMay there always be art andhistory and may we never forget how to sit under stars in roundamphitheaters that could be any where or whenMay there always be strings and grand pianos
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I was never an Esther (until now)I wore my Jewish pride with prideBejewelled and armed with learning shared with anyone who would listenMy Jewishness is often first through the door“Rabbi” preempting my given name on desks and lanyards and at the bottom of poetry and divrei TorahI never thought to hide it (until now)Why would
My friends have been writing about GodOne gets divine communications via text messageOne is still waiting for any sign at allFor me, it’s a Tap on the shoulderA Whisper in my earThe Still Small Voice Nu? (She says with a tap tap tap)Why are these days any different?The world is a messI left you instructionsGo out
My Uber driver was a woman in a hijab I climbed in, conscious of my Magen David Did she clock it? She didn’t say I didn’t move to hide it We chatted pleasantly and when Sara Bareilles came on the radio We both sang along Somewhere else our two people Are killing one another But
In a park in Jerusalem I sit on a bench Stone at my back It is cool spring Light jacket No socks and the grass is so green Patches of sunlight, warm Purple dripping from the trees Beneath the canopy of green I smell them The scent heavy beneath from what hangs above from what
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You think you know me but you don’t. I am Miriam. The famous Prophetess. The leader of women singing and dancing on the shores of the Reed Sea. I am Miriam. Famous sister of the arguably more famous Moses and Aaron. Miriam, whose name is sometimes used – always in relation to them, never standing
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(a response to Merle Feld’s “Let my people go that we may serve You”) I don’t remember girdles but I remember the anger we’re not supposed to show. I’ve always been counted and I’ve also been dismissed too often and too easily I’ve positioned myself so as to be impossible to be seen as invisible,
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“We are breathed in-to” she says, and tears spring to my softly closed eyelids We are breathed in-to. God breathes into me Enters me And I breathe back Out Into God We are One We are breathed in-to I am safe and I am loved and I can be whole Sitting between two beloved dear
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