Category archive for ‘PRAYER’ rss

  • Long As God Can Grow It

    4/28/13 • (0)

    Is that a mop on your head or are you just counting the Omer? Or how I ended up observing the Omer in spite of myself.

  • Omer Is My Siddur? (Alone on a Shelf)

    4/05/13 • (2)

    Using Judaism’s traditional seven-week period of mourning as inspiration to return to a ‘three-a-day the Jewish way’ prayer practice.

  • The Amidah Project: Three a Day the RJ Way

    2/22/13 • (1)

    A reader asked how a Reform Jew can learn to pray Judaism’s traditional three weekday prayers. Here’s my guide on using Mishkan T’filah, the current RJ prayerbook, to do just that.

  • The Amidah Project: Modeh Ani (Video)

    10/28/12 • (1)

    The Modeh Ani: prayer upon waking or jaunty country song? It’s how I greet the world every morning, thanking God for the gift of another day. But I’m never able to get a certain Kol B’Seder melody out of my head. And that’s okay. Gratitude is never something to be embarrassed about.

  • The Amidah Project: Laying Tefillin–Wearing Your Prayer on Your Sleeve (Video)

    10/26/12 • (5)

    Phylacteries. Except, no Jew calls them that. They’re tefillin, and Jews are commanded to wrap themselves in them before morning prayer. They’re a part of my morning ritual. Here’s what that looks like.

  • The Amidah Project: Kol Nidre

    9/24/12 • (1)

    To experience the t’shuvah of Kol Nidre, who really cares about the legal basis for Judaism’s most famous High Holy Day chant?

  • Once Around the Sanctuary, Not So Fast

    9/21/12 • (0)

    People often remark that converts tend to have a deeper knowledge of Judaism than do Jews by birth. But as with all things, practice makes perfect.

  • Amidah Project: Everything Is Holy

    6/22/12 • (2)

    I find it hard to look at human suffering and see no-suffering. I find it hard to look at human faces and see no-faces. It’s not that, deep down, I feel we have any independent existence from God. It’s that I think we’re not supposed to see it that way.

  • In Which I Discover My Fences

    6/04/12 • (3)

    Jews-by-Birth often inspire Jews-by-Choice to think in wider, more universal terms about our Judaism. In return, we hope to inspire Jews-by-Birth not to forget the particularities that make us–and keep us–Jewish.

  • The Amidah Project

    2/16/12 • (12)

    Finding the still, small voice in a silent Amidah? Worth its weight in gold. Finding that silent Amidah in a Reform synagogue? Priceless. Explaining how finding that still, small voice feels? Worth a new blog series.