Learning Guide and Reflective Practice for the Days of Awe
This new packet explores liturgical, temporal, and internal themes of the High Holidays.
Lineage with Shekhinah
“I want to introduce them / Shekhinah and my mother /
They share a love of flowers, birds,
Plants, trees, cats…”
The King is in the Field
“I walk further into the field, and in the distance, I glimpse You, / Standing on the horizon, your arms open to greet me…”
Our Pilgrimage to Eisner Camp
A mother makes a ritual of dropping off her children at summer camp.
Deeper
“We beseeched the beings
of wind and earth and air
and G-d…”
War: A Prayer for Peace
“I think of the Palestinian and Jewish children / singing together in the Jerusalem Youth Chorus…”
Anachnu Osim Shalom: A Prayer for Peace
“There is room for all of our feelings in our prayers for peace
and in our prayers for enough of everything for everyone.”
Yizkor
“We gather today to remember, not to mourn.”
Hineni
“Hineni. / Here I am. / But am I here?”
Yom Kippur
“Once I stop my sinful actions,
I open the space / to begin to heal.”
