Holidays & Festivals

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• Sitting In Emptiness 

ROSH HODESH

• Rosh Hodesh
• Rosh Hodesh Elul
• Rosh Hodesh Shevat
• Rosh Hodesh Adar
• Rosh Hodesh Heshvan
• Rosh Hodesh Kislev 
• Rosh Hodesh Elul/Rosh Hashana LaBeheimot (The New Year of the Animals)
• Blessing for the Lunar Month of Adar

ELUL/SELICHOT

• Prayer for Selichot

• Return: A Prayer for Elul Rosh Hodesh 

• Blessing for the Bugs on Rosh Hodesh Elul, The New Year of the Animals (Rosh HaShana HaBehama) 

• A Blessing for Pets on Rosh Hodesh Elus, Rosh HaShana HaBehama 

•  Forgive You?

EREV ROSH HASHANAH

• Kesher v'Gesher, a Prayer for Erev Rosh HaShanah

ROSH HASHANAH

• Behold, Where are you?, Here I am: A Rosh Hashana Invocation   

• A Rosh Hashanah Amida 

•  A Prayer for Praying,  Before Blowing the Shofar 

• Place Yourself:  An Unetaneh Tokef 

SHABBAT SHUVA

• Return To The Land Of Your Soul

      TASHLICH 

• Clean Dirt 

• The Watering

KOL NIDRE

• I Am In Exile:  A Prayer for Kol Nidre 

• A List Of My Sins, For Yom Kippur

• Place Yourself:  An Unetaneh Tokef 

YOM KIPPUR 

• A List Of My Sins, For Yom Kippur 

• Yom Kippur Havdallah 

• Avodah for Yom Kippur

YIZKOR

• A Yizkor Kavannah for the Ambivalent
• A Prayer for Compassion 
• A Blessing For Survivors

SUKKOT 

• Stars In The Sky 

• A Prayer For Joy

• God's Back, A Drash for Sukkot 

•  Invitation To The Builders Of The Sukkah

•  Sitting In Emptiness  

• Maybe 

 

SIMKHAT TORAH

• Standing at Sinai

• We Dance Around the Shul, A Prayer for Simkhat Torah

HANUKKAH

•  I'm Over The Maccabees:  A Hanukkah Prayer

• Adam and Eve Invent Hanukah 

• Giving LIght 

• No Hanukkah Party This Year

WINTER SOLSTICE

• Tilt:  A Prayer for the Winter Solstice 
• Season’s Wishes

TU BISHVAT

• Rosh Chodesh Shevat  

• Blessing For A Tree In The City  

• Tree in a Rain Forest: A Guided Meditation   

• Laser Fusion (For Tu Bishvat)

 

 PURIM

• Vashti Says No: Megillah, Chapter 1

• A Purim Havdallah 

• We See What You're Doing: Megillah, Chapter 5  

• Latkes Vs. Hamentaschen:  A Purim Poem  

•  Zeresh, the Karen of Shushan:  Megillah Chapter 5 

• We Won and They Lost:  Megillah, Chapter 9  

• Everyone Here Will Laugh With Me

 

SPRING 

• On the Vernal Equinox 

PESACH

•  The Afflicted Matzah (Afikomen) 

• The Four Cups of Wine

• Four Children, Five Rabbis

• Two Cups: Elijah and Miriam

• Behold 

•  Blessing After Eating the Seder Meal 

•  Plagues Are Not Cute

YOM HASHOAH

• I Was Afraid

LAG B'OMER

• What I Know About Lag B’Omer 

COUNTING THE OMER

• The Foundation of Love:  Yesod of Chesed.  Day 6
• Counting: Week 4 (Netzach/Endurance)
• The Love of Foundation:  Chesed of Yesod Day 36
• The Culmination: Malkhut of Malkhut Day 49
• On Finishing The Counting of The Omer
• Counting on The Long Haul

SHAVUOT

• Day Of Stopping   

•  A Shavuot Blessing For Essential and Sacred Workers 

• Shavuot Kavannah
• Counting on The Long Haul

 

 

     SUMMER SOLSTICE

• The Earth Prays

     JULY 4TH

•  Another July 4th Prayer

• Making Decisions on July Fourth 

• Prayer For The Pursuit of Happiness 

TISHA B'AV

• For Lost Homes 

• A Blessing For Survivors 

• A Prayer For Compassion

• I Was Afraid
• Alas: A Lament for Tisha B’Av
• KRIAH 2021
• YAHRZEIT 2021
• Prayer For The Young and Old
• The Empty Chair

BIRKAT HaCHAMMAH

•      Fruit Flies

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