The Soul’s Transit: 24 Hours of Neshama
Thu Jan 6, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
Online, Zoom
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Where does the soul go when we sleep? How do we express gratitude for the life that flows through us when we miraculously awaken each morning? How do we praise the gift of life? Jewish prayers of the soul’s journey from night to day and back again can offer a format for expressing our deepest feelings of connection to life, to ourselves, and the divine. Using prompts, short guided mediations and discussion, liturgist Trisha Arlin will guide us in following the journeys of our neshamot/souls. Through the examination of Jewish prayers of the soul—the Bedtime Shema, Modah Ani, and Elohai Neshama—we will creatively engage with the concepts of forgiveness, death, gratitude, and praise, and then write our own versions of these prayers in response.
Trisha Arlin is a liturgist, writer, performer and student of prayer in Brooklyn, NY. Trisha has served as a Liturgist, Scholar, and Artist in Residence and taught for venues including the National Havurah Committee’s Summer Institute, Ritualwell.org, Haggadot.com, and for synagogues around the country. She is a builder of Bayit’s Liturgical Arts project. Trisha received a BA in Theater from Antioch College in 1975 and MFA in Film (Screenwriting) in 1997 from Columbia University. In 2009/2010, Trisha was an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute. In 2011, she graduated from the sixth cohort of the Davennen Leadership Training Institute (DLTI). Trisha’s liturgy has been used in services, for ritual occasions, and at venues of many denominations nationwide. She is the author of Place Yourself: Words of Poetry and Intention (a collection of liturgy and kavannot). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion; Seder Tefillot, Forms of Prayer: Prayers for the High Holydays, (Movement for Reform Judaism); B’cholLevavecha (CCAR Press); Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal (Bayit and Ben Yehuda Press); A Poet’s Siddur (Ain’t Got No Press); Studies in Judaism and Pluralism (Ben Yehuda Press) and can be found online at TrishaArlin.com, at Ritualwell.org, opensiddur.org.
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