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Recent Additions Here: "A Song Every Day"

“One of Me” and Genesis 2

Can we serve as ezer k’negdo [help-meet] for one another? Might Elton John and Lil Nas X be an example of this?

Singing and Praying about Enemies

Musical context is shifting my perspective on “enemies” and “wicked ones” in the psalms.

Miriam, Amalek, Memory, and Mouths

How much do we lose, and what do we gain, when we forget to remember why we chose to remember or forget? What must remembered with our mouths and with our hearts?

Remedy of the Bima?

What is our responsibility, individually and collectively, for what is taught — or not — in our synagogues about reparations?

Or Olam: the light ahead and within

Seeking pieces of liturgy and other resources for uplift, as we try to move from the depths of Av to the new year, “Eternal Light”….

Tag: Pidyon Ha-ben

Korach and the Liturgy

Connections to prayer within parashat Korach are an eclectic, and sometimes well-hidden, set — from redeeming the first-born to a Shabbat table song.
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Posted on June 9, 2010June 9, 2010Categories Bamidbar, childbearing, Healing, prayer, PsalmsTags early infant loss, infertility, Korach, Pidyon Ha-bat, Pidyon Ha-ben, tzama nafshi1 Comment on Korach and the Liturgy

Bamidbar: A Path to Follow

Males are counted “from the age of one month up” (Numbers 3:15).
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Posted on May 20, 2009June 27, 2019Categories Bamidbar, childbearing, TorahTags Bamidbar, Mourning for infants, Path, Pidyon Ha-bat, Pidyon Ha-ben, WeeklyTorah1 Comment on Bamidbar: A Path to Follow