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Sunday, December 10, 2017

I'M OVER THE MACCABEES, A Hanukkah Prayer

Baruch Atah Adonai,

Brucha At Shechina,

Ruach HaOlam:

I'm over the Maccabees.

I'm done with fanatics.

I'm done with extremists who demand purity.

I'm done with fundamentalists who shut women up.

I'm done with religions that kill.

I'm over the Seleucids.

I'm done with invaders stealing land.

I'm done with fascists and supremacists and antisemites and islamaphobes.

I'm done with people telling me or anyone how I’m allowed to understand my God.

I'm done with liars and rapists and war criminals and powerful men.

I'm over the Hellenists.

I'm done with apologizing for my culture.

I'm done with rich suck-ups to power.

I'm done with living in comfy bubbles.

I'm done with pretending we're them.

I'm over Hanukkah.

I'm done with Hanukkah bushes.

I'm done with one good present and then socks.

I'm done with light in the darkness (I like the dark).

I'm done with needing miracles.

I'm okay with rebellion and truth.

And realistic hope

And potato latkes.

Oh, and donuts,

Let's start there.

Amen

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PLACE YOURSELF: Words of Prayer and Intention

A collection of prayers, kavannot, blessings

by Trisha Arlin

Forward by Rabbi Jill Hammer

Art by Mike Cockrill

Published by Dimus Parrhesia Press

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"Yizkor For the Ambivalent" in BESIDE STILL WATERS, A JOURNAL OF COMFORT AND RENEWAL, ed. Rachel Barenblatt, to be be published in 2018 https://yourbayit.org/bayit-publishing-beside-still-waters/?frame-nonce=f0253944c0

In 2019:

"Aleinu: It is Upon Us" in RENEW OUR HEARTS: A Siddur for Shabbat Day. https://yourbayit.org/renew-our-hearts-a-siddur-for-shabbat-day/

STUDIES IN JUDAISM AND PLURALISM Published by Ben Yehuda Press.Includes an article on "Choosing A Siddur in a Pluralist Congregation" by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann and Trisha Arlin and the kavannah, "A Prayer Before Blowing the Shofar", by Trisha Arlin

"Emet: Truth–Established and Otherwise" in A POET'S SIDDUR, edited by Rick Lupert . Ain't Got No Press, 2017

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

I'M OVER THE MACCABEES, A Hanukkah Prayer