Once a year the Jewish custom is to say a special blessing on flowering fruit trees...
Each day between the beginning of Passover and Shavuot gets counted, 49 days in all, 7 weeks of seven days. Here are the words we say and some of the meaning behind the ritual.
Get the Omer Counter widget! Plus other pages on the Omer.
Imagine a Jewish practice which has the purpose of restoring all the species and creatures, and all the sparks they contain, to the fullness of blessing.
A nigun for meditating on Chanukah candles.
Watch out for this one! One of the most anti-religious songs ever sung in a synagogue...
The prayer for rain: Mark and Reb Simcha's
geshem piyut for the mothers.
A way to add the
imahot to the first blessing of the
Amidah that is both more explicitly feminist and more halakhically conservative.
A liturgy that includes the
imahot, the mothers, seems not only good but imperative.
Hu Ya'aneinu, God will answer us, with verses for the women.
For the sin of destroying God's creation...
Clapping for God!
Downloadable, printable Lamentations for use on
Tish'a B'Av, in PDF file format.
Most
siddurim include Yedid Nefesh, but if yours doesn't, you can
open and print this one page pdf based on
Siddur Chaverim Kol Yisrael.
From the first published seder, based on the Kabbalah of the four worlds. The seder calls on us to bring blessing to all creation.
If you can't pray in a voting booth, where can you pray? And where would you need more to pray?
Links to some Wikipedia articles on Hasidism and Neo-Hasidism, with a description of some future projects. Please write in with additions!
What is Ana Bekhoach; how to use it in shul; download and print out the text, and more.
