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Baruch Atah Adonai Brucha At Shechinah I am glad that I don’t believe in an intervening God of cause and effect, In a petty king and insecure supreme being Who plans everything that happens on our planet. Because if I did, After this last year, I would be way pissed off. Baruch Atah Adonai […]
Imagine that you are in a room in your homeA room that has a doorAnd the door is closedYour favorite roomThe room you feel safest inA room where nothing changesAnd nothing challengesAnd you sit in this roomAnd look around youAnd you see that the room is darkVery darkThat the safety of the room has taken […]
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On Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the first day of the new moon of Elul, we begin an accounting for all the souls with whom we are in a relationship. Listen for the voice of the animals in the sound of the shofar. (The shofar is blown once, a single tekiyah/blast.) Cat Baby, Dog Baby, Fur Baby, My Baby, Baby Boo, Love Machine, Poosy, Schmushy […]
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For when you are too sad to remember:May your sadness be felt as deeply as it needs to beAnd may it lift in its proper time. May you understand that just because some people can’t be there at your sadnessDoesn’t mean they don’t love you.May you be able to take pleasure in the pleasures of […]
Written for the 2016 Kolot Chayeinu Anti-Racism Weekly Omer Counter 1. We count the Omer for seven weeks, 49 days: The loving kindness and benevolence of Chesed; The strength and holy limitations of Gevurah; The spiritual balance and beauty of Tiferet; The eternal endurance of Netzach; The prayer and intellecutalism of Hod; The gateway of […]
Plagues are not finger puppets, Plagues are not soft and furry stuffed toys, Plagues don’t have googly eyes, Plagues are not cute. Plagues are not targeted attacks, Plagues are not guerilla warfare, Plagues do not show up in a court of law, Plagues are not fair. Plagues are not a bland topic for a mild […]
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© Trisha Arlin Blessed One-ness, I give thanks for the gifts that are mine to give. One day, I walked into a subway car and sat down on a bench-seat that had just enough room for me. Now, I am a wide person, I take up a bit more space Than someone who is not […]
© Trisha Arlin About four years ago, I embarked on a personal program of mindful practice regarding how I react to feeling threatened or hurt. For years, my hurt or frightened reactions looked like anger and attack instead of the protective reactions they were and they were alienating and unsustainable. Sp I was just […]
The parsha Vayera has a lot of different stories: The annunciation of Isaac’s eventual birth and Sarah’s laughter, Lot offering up his daughters for rape in the hopes of saving two visitors to Sodom, the destruction of Sodom, Abraham arguing with God about the destruction of Sodom, Lot fleeing Sodom and his wife turning into […]
© 2015 Trisha Arlin I. HINEI, BEHOLD OUR DREAMS In the Talmud, Rebbe Hannina says, Human versions of God’s vast intent are as unripened fruit,Filled with potential,Perceived completely only by God.Hanina says that the unripened fruit of prophecy is a dream.Which is kind of cool.So I speculate,The unripened fruit of truth is the story. While we […]
You say to me, “If I have hurt you in any way this past year, I apologize and hope that you can pardon me, forgive me, let me atone for my sins against you.” If? If you have hurt me? Of course you have hurt me! Remember that time in the car, in the […]
Blessed One-ness! On this beautiful summer day Under this large and welcoming tree, Our green tallit, We gather together to give thanks To the animals who make all life possible: The bugs. Big and small Beautiful and hideous Helpful and hurtful They build They pollinate They are the food of our food. Most of the […]
Blessed Yah, Creator, Created, Creating… On this day of joy and celebration and mourning, We pray for peace and love, For ourselves and the world, Even if only for one day: Instead of anger, we choose kindness. Instead of revenge, we choose justice. Instead of resentment, we choose empathy. Instead of work, we choose rest. […]
© 2015 Patricia Arlin Your soul was pure: You were in yourself, You remember that. You remember safety. Amazed at the taste of food, sugar blew your mind. You danced and laughed and told jokes. You slept on the dog. You loved to hear the cantor sing the songs, You knew that God was in […]
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© Trisha ArlinThis week we are reading a double portion, Tazria Metzora. Both of these parshiot are primarily concerned with a kind of uncleaness, a lack of purity, that manifests itself as skin disease. This disease has been incorrectly called leprosy, but it’s actually rather mysterious, especially since it can also attack clothes and buildings. The source of the […]
© 2015 Patricia Arlin Blessed One-ness, I am afraid— It floats in front of me So big, and sometimes I can’t see around it, So small, sometimes I pretend it isn’t there. I tried to carry it away, to take care of it to put it to bed to soothe myself But I couldn’t get […]
© Trisha Arlin You may wish to dispute this,But I thinkThat without disputation, there is no Judaism. Without both the bitter and the sweet, Without both the strict and the kind, Without both obligation and flexibility, We simply cannot exist. So tonight We eat the Hillel Sandwich,That argumentative amuse bouche, Made of Bitter-juicy horseradishand Brick-sweet charosetand […]