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Rosh Hodesh is celebrated only eleven times a year. Tishre, the month Rosh Hodesh coincides with Rosh Hashanah, is omitted. If Rosh Hodesh falls on two days, the ceremony may…
Contributor:
Arlene Agus
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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“But what is dayenu? What is sufficient for us?” asks the Wise Daughter.
Dayenu
If Eve had been created in the image of God
and not as helper to Adam,
it would have sufficed.
Dayenu.
אִילוּ נוֹצְרַה…
Contributor:
E. M. Broner, Naomi Nimrod
Places:
Detroit, United States of America
Date:
1993
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While man explores, with curious eye,
The works of nature and of art,
He passeth real wisdom by,
Nor cares to read the human heart.
A stranger to…
Contributor:
Penina Moïse
Places:
Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1867
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We turn our thoughts to yesterday…to a world that lives only in our memory.
As we recall the days gone by, we know the past is irretrievable.
Yet—through the gift of memory, we recapture treasured…
Contributor:
Evelyn Mehlman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1980
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Upon arising in the morning, we acknowledge
God’s presence and compassion
I am grateful to You, living, enduring King, for restoring my soul to me in compassion. You are faithful beyond measure.
Contributor:
Jules Harlow
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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Wherever we stand to lift our eyes to heaven, that place is a Holy of Holies.
—S. Ansky
The sun descending settling
on the roof of the synagogue.
The cantor faces the open Ark,
His exhausted voice…
Contributor:
Herman Taube
Places:
Rockville, United States of America
Date:
1986
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It is up to us
To hallow Creation,
To respond to Life
With the fullness of our lives.
It is up to us
To meet the World,
To embrace the Whole
Even as we wrestle
With its parts.
It is up to us
To…
Contributor:
Rami M. Shapiro
Places:
Miami, United States of America
Date:
1988
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For the wrong we did before You by listening to voices at odds with what we knew was right;
For the wrong we did before You by not listening to voices telling us unpleasant truths;
For the wrong we…
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Richard N. Levy
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1985
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Blessing Before the Meal
Let us bless the source of life
that brings forth bread from the earth.
N’vareykh et eyn haḥayim
hamotzi’ah léḥem min ha’áretz.
Sh’ma: Communal Declaration of Faith
Hear…
Contributor:
Marcia Falk
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1996
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Where is my light? My light is in me.
Where is my hope? My hope is in me.
Where is my strength? My strength is in me,
And in you.
Contributor:
Sherwin Wine
Places:
Farmington Hills, United States of America
Date:
1976