SINCE 2007

12 Sivan 5785 / 13 June 2025

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

The Coming of Light

Mark Strand

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

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Even this late it happens:

the coming of love, the coming of light.

You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,

stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,

sending up warm bouquets of air.

Even this late the bones of the body shine

and tomorrow's dust flares into breath.

בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ שְכִינָה בְּתוֹכּינוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְשָתְנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֵיהָ וְצִוָתְנוּ לְהַדְלִיק נֵר שֶׁל שׁבּת.

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B’rucha at Shekhinah, b’tocheynu, ruach ha v’olam, asher kidshatnu b’mitzvoteha v’tzivatnu lehadlik ner shel shabbat.

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Blessed are you, Shekhinah, who is within us, spirit of the world,

who infuses our lives with holiness and inspires us

to light the shabbat lights.

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Day ends, and before sleep

when the sky dies down, consider

your altered state: has this day

changed you? Are the corners

sharper or rounded off? Did you

live with death? Make decisions

that quieted? Find one clear word

that fit? At the sun’s midpoint

did you notice a pitch of absence,

bewilderment that invites

the possible? What did you learn

from things you dropped and picked up

and dropped again? Did you set a straw

parallel to the river, let the flow

carry you downstream?

Questions Before Dark

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Jeanne Lohmann

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

And did you get what

you wanted from this life, even so?

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I did.

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And what did you want?

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To call myself beloved, to feel myself

beloved on the earth.

Late Fragment

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Raymond Carver

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2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

Wildfire Moon

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Ned Balbo

The wildfires still burning in Quebec

spill upward into smoke, each fleck

a torn-up silhouette

of scorched particulate

that floats and sparks

against the dark.

Blown south, the smoke stalls here. A text sends words:

Code Orange. The rabbits in our yard

smell fire in the air: they hurtle round

or huddle closer to the ground.

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

Wildfire Moon

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Ned Balbo

Seen through the scrime of ash-dust and debris,

the twilit sky’s an open sea,

rust-red, unnatural,

yet calmly beautiful....

Fires emblazon

the horizon

coast to coast, across the continent—

As if they know, the birds go silent,

tucked into trees to wait: invisible,

alert. Soon the burnished bell,

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

Wildfire Moon

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Ned Balbo

a wildfire moon, will falter in the sky

...Don’t say it’s “rose” or “strawberry”—

It’s not some growing thing

but fire-forged, like a ring —

Or else a shield

unearthed, upheld,

that, long admired for its craftsmanship,

hangs rusted in the haze of sleep,

retouched by the remains of branch and leaf

charred black, yet strangely light. Like grief.

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

charred black, yet strangely light. Like grief.

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

I never will have time

I never will have time enough

To say

How beautiful it is

The way the moon

Floats in the air

As easily

And lightly as a bird

Although she is a world

Made all of stone.

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I never will have time enough

To praise

The way the stars

Hang glittering in the dark

Of steepest heaven

Their dewy sparks

Their brimming drops of light

So fresh so clear

That when you look at them

It quenches thirst.

Looking at the Sky

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Anne Porter

12 Sivan 5785 / 13 June 2025

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

And sun said,

let there be fire

and there was fire.

And the fire said,

let there be wind,

and the wind was throbbing

and the beast of the flames

pulled taught over the hills,

said naught to the chaparral,

and nil to the coyote.

And the coyote ran.

And the rabbits ran.

And the deer

and the rattlesnake

and the quail ran.

Heat

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Ruth Bavetta

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

And the wind

sprang from its kiln

and tongue-licked the eaves

and the rafters

and the roof.

And the smoke

was air and the air

was smoke.

The air was our bodies.

It was the shadows

against the sky.

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

Do everything as if you were

planting a spruce seedling

among stumps in a clearcut,

laying it gently in the earth

where it may or may not grow,

knowing that even if it does

you will not be there to feel

your footsteps cushioned by

its bed of fallen needles—

you will not be there to linger

in glimmered sunlight slanting

on a blanket spread beneath

to catch every inch of shade.

Silence the voices that say,

What if this comes to nothing?

and just keep doing whatever

brings you most alive.

Without Expectation

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Jame Crews

There is a hush now while the hills rise up�and God is going to sleep. He trusts the ship�of Heaven to take over and proceed beautifully�as he lies dreaming in the lap of the world.�He knows the owls will guard the sweetness�of the soul in their massive keep of silence,�looking out with eyes open or closed over�the length of Tomales Bay that the egrets�conform to, whitely broad in flight, white�and slim in standing. God, who thinks about�poetry all the time, breathes happily as He�repeats to Himself: there are fish in the net,�lots of fish this time in the net of the heart.

Fishing in the Keep of Silence

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Linda Gregg

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

For nothing is fixed,

forever, forever, forever,

it is not fixed;

the earth is always shifting,

the light is always changing,

the sea does not cease to grind down rock.

Generations do not cease to be born,

and we are responsible to them

because we are the only witnesses they have.

The sea rises, the light fails,

lovers cling to each other,

and children cling to us.

The moment we cease to hold each other,

the moment we break faith with one another,

the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

For Nothing is Fixed

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James Baldwin

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

Let the light of late afternoon

shine through chinks in the barn, moving

up the bales as the sun moves down.

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Let the cricket take up chafing

as a woman takes up her needles

and her yarn. Let evening come.

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Let Evening Come

Jane Kenyon

Let evening come.

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

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Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned

in long grass. Let the stars appear

and the moon disclose her silver horn.

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Let the fox go back to its sandy den.

Let the wind die down. Let the shed

go black inside. Let evening come.

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Let evening come.

Let Evening Come

Jane Kenyon

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To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop

in the oats, to air in the lung

let evening come.

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Let it come, as it will, and don't

be afraid. God does not leave us

comfortless, so let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don't

be afraid. God does not leave us

comfortless, so let evening come.

Let Evening Come

Jane Kenyon

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בָּרְכוּ / Bar’khu/ Pool of Blessing

Kohenet liturgy

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בָּרְכוּ אֶת הַבְּרֵכָה הַמְבֹרֶכֶת

Leader: Barchu et haBereichah haMevorechet

Give blessing to the Pool of Blessing

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בָּרוּכָה הַבְּרֵכָה הַמְבֹרֶכֶת לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד

Group: Beruchah ha Bereichah haMevorechet le’olam va’ed

Blessing to the Pool of Blessing in all the worlds throughout eternity

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בָּרוּכָה הַבְּרֵכָה הַמְבֹרֶכֶת לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד

Leader: Beruchah ha Bereichah haMevorechet le’olam va’ed

Blessing to the Pool of Blessing in all the worlds throughout eternity

call & Response

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

If Not

Rabbi Hillel, Adrienne Rich, Dane Kuttler

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If I am not for myself

who is for me?

If I am only for myself

what am I?

If not now

then when?

If not with others

then how?

If not here

then where?

call & Response

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

בָּרוּכָה אַת שְׁכִינָה, אֶלֹהָינוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר בִּדְבָרָה מַעֲרִיבָה עֲרָבִים. בְּחָכְמָה פּוֹתַּחַת שְׁעָרִים, וּבִתְבוּנָה מְשַׁנָּה עִתִּים, וּמַחֲלִיפָה אֶת הַזְּמַנְּים, וּמְסַדֶרֶת אֶת הַכּוֹכָבִים, בְּמִשְׁמְרוֹתֵיהֶם בָּרָקָיעַ כְּרְצוֹנָה. בּוֹרֵאת יוֹם וָלָיְלְה, גּוֹלֶלֶת אוֹר מִפְּנֵי חשֶׁךְ וְחשֶׁךְ מִפְּנֵי אוֹר, וּמַעֲבִירָה יוֹם וּמָבִיאָה לָיְלָה, וּמַבְדִּילָה בֵּין יוֹם וּבֵין לָיְלָה יָה צְבָאוֹת שְׁמָהּ. אֵלָה חַיָה וְקַיָּמֶת, תָּמִיד תִּמְלוֹךְ עָלִינוּ לְעוֹלָם וְעֶד. בָּרוּכָה אַתּ שְׁכִינָה, הַמַעֲרִיבָה עֲרָבִים.

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Beruchah at Shekhinah, eloheinu ruach ha’olam, asher bid’varah ma’arivah aravim. B’chochmah potachat sh’arim, uvitvunah m’shanah itim, umachalifah et haz’manim, um’saderet et hakovim, b’mish’meroteihem barakai’a kirtzonah. Boreit yom v’lailah, golelet or mipnei choshech v’choshech mipnei or, uma’avirah yom umaviah lailah, umavdilah bein yom uvein lailah yah tz’vaot sh’mah. Elah chaia v’kaiyamet, tamid timloch aleinu l’olam va’ed.

Barucha at Shekhinah, hama’arivah aravim.

Ma’arivah Aravim / Jill Hammer

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

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Blessed are you, Infinite Holy, guide of the world, for your word makes the evening into evening.

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In wisdom you open the gates of time, and in understanding you fold one moment into the next, and change the seasons, and order the stars in their watches in the sky, according to your design.

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Creating day and night, rolling light away before darkness and darkness away before light, you cause day to pass away and bring the night, dividing day from night, your name is the Infinite of Hosts.

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Living and lasting divinity, always walk before us. Blessed are You, Infinite, who makes the evening into evening.

call & Response

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

this house

in danger of being torn apart

by stones of fear.

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If these words can do anything

if these songs can do anything

I say bless this house

with stars.

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Transfix us with love.

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I'm not afraid of love

or its consequence of light.

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It's not easy to say this

or anything when my entrails

dangle between paradise

and fear.

I am ashamed

I never had the words

to carry a friend from her death

to the stars

correctly.

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Or the words to keep

my people safe

from drought

or gunshot.

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The stars who were created by words

are circling over this house

formed of calcium, of blood

Creation Story / Joy Harjo

Blessing of Creation / Birkat Y’tzirah בִּרְכַּת יְצִירָה

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Gatherings / Elliott batTzedek

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Gather our strengths

and gather our failures

Gather our kin

and gather our strangers

Gather what we love

and what we fear

Gather what we have lost

and what we are afraid to lose

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Find the courage to proclaim

“All we gather is sacred”

call & Response

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

שְׁמַע / Sh’ma

Ariadne Joy Lieber

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שְׁמַע אמִי /יִשְּׂרָאֵל הַשְׁכִינָה בְּקִרְבֵּינוּ הַשְׁכִינָה אַחָת

Sh’ma Ami ha-Shekhinah b’Kirbainu ha-Shekhinah Ahat

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Listen, My People, the Shekhinah is in our inmost being, the Shekhinah is one

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בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם כְּבוֹד מַלְכוּתוֹ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד

Baruch shem kevod malchuto le’olam va’ed.

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/V’ahav’tוְאָהַבְתְּ

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וְאָהַבְתְּ אֵת יְיָ אֱלֹהַיִךְ, בְּכָל-לְבָבֵךְ וּבְכָל-נַפְשֵׁךְ, וּבְכָל-מְאֹדֵךְ. וְהָיוּ הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵֽלֶּה,

אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוָּתֵךְ הַיּוֹם, עַל-לְבָבֵךְ. וְשִׁנַּנְתִּים לִבְנֹתַיִךְ וּלְבָנַיִךְ, וְדִבַּרְתְּ בָּם,

בְּשִׁבְתֵּךְ בְּבֵיתֵךְ, וּבְלֶכְתֵךְ בַּדֶּֽרֶךְ, וּבְשָׁכְבֵּךְ וּבְקוּמֵךְ. וּקְשַׁרְתִּים לְאוֹת עַל יָדֵךְ,

וְהָיוּ לְטֹטָפֹת בֵּין עֵינַיךְ. וּכְתַבְתִּים עַל מְזֻזוֹת בֵּיתֵךְ וּבִשְׁעָרַיִךְ.

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Ve’ahav’t et skekhinah elohayich, bechol levavech, uvekol nafshech u-ve’chol me’odech. Vehayu hadevarim ha’eleh, asher anochi metzavatech hayom, al levavech. Veshinantim l’vnotayich ul’vanayich, vedibaret bam beshivtech beveitech u’velechtech baderech, uveshachbech uvekumech. Ukshartim le’ot al yadeych, vehayu letotafot bein einayich. Uchetavtim al mezuzot beitech uvisharayich.

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

And you must love The One, your God, with your whole heart, with every breath, with all you have.

Take these words that I command you now to heart. Teach them intently to your children.

Speak them when you sit inside your house or walk upon the road, when you lie down and when you rise.

And bind them as a sign upon your hand, and keep them visible before your eyes.

Inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

After the industrial revolution

has run its course, after digital

catastrophes, after self destructing

data farms, after plastic and screens,

after phones, after money, after

summers of fire, winters of extinction,

after the customs of rush hour and

addiction, after borders, walls and

towers, after magnificent lies told

to millions, after missiles and hatred

the size of nations, after billionaires

explaining what freedom means

to their slaves, after all our tired

posturing, our worn out theories

of privilege over earth, if we can

come to after, who shall we be?

Wood, Hemp, Bark, Stone

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Kim Stafford

Blessing of Redemption מָקוֹר תּקּוּן עוֹלֶּם

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

הַשְׁכִּיבֵֽנוּ יהוה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ לְשָׁלוֹם, וְהַעֲמִידֵֽנוּ מַלְכֵּֽנוּ לְחַיִּים, וּפְרוֹשׂ עָלֵֽינוּ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶֽךָ:

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Hashkivenu Echiyeh elohaynu leshalom veha’amidenu malkenu lechayim, ufros aleynu sukkat shelomecha.

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Lay us down, Echiyeh, our Father, in peace, and raise us up again, our Mother, to life, and spread over us the shelter of your peace.

Let your love cover me, Like a pair of angel wings,

You are my family, You are my family.

Ushmor tzeytenu uvo’enu,

ufros aleynu sukkat shelomecha.

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הַשְׁכִּיבֵנוּ Hashkiveinu

Traditional liturgy, new translation by Elliott batTzedek, song lyric and melody by Pierce Pettis

וְתַקְּנֵֽנוּ בְעֵצָה טוֹבָה מִלְּפָנֶֽיךָ, וְהוֹשִׁיעֵֽנוּ לְמַֽעַן שְׁמֶֽךָ.

וּבְצֵל כְּנָפֶיךָ תַסְתִּירֵנוּ כִּי אֵל שׁוֹמְרֵֽנוּ וּמַצִּילֵֽנוּ אָֽתָּה,

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Vetakenenu ve’etzah tovah milefanecha vehoshi’enu leman’an she’mecha.

Uv’tzel kanefecha tastirenu ki el shomrenu umatzilenu atah

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And nestle us in your good council and deliver us for the sake of your names, and in the shade of your wings shelter us, for you are our parent and our protector,

Let your love cover me, Like a pair of angel wings,

You are my family, You are my family.

Ushmor tzeytenu uvo’enu,

ufros aleynu sukkat shelomecha.

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הַשְׁכִּיבֵנוּ Hashkiveinu

Traditional liturgy, new translation by Elliott batTzedek, song lyric and melody by Pierce Pettis

כִּי אֵל מֶֽלֶךְ חַנּוּן וְרַחוּם אָֽתָּה, וּשְׁמוֹר צֵאתֵֽנוּ וּבוֹאֵֽנוּ, לְחַיִּים וּלְשָׁלוֹם, מֵעַתָּה וְעַד עוֹלָם.

וּפְרוֹשׂ עָלֵֽינוּ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶֽךָ.

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ki el melech chanun verachum atah, ushmor tzeytenu uvo’enu lechayim ulshalom, me’atah ve’ad olam. Ufros aleynu sukkat shelomecha.

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For our Father, you are compassionate and our Mother, you are merciful. Guard us when we go out and when we return, for life and for peace, for now and forever. Spread over us the shelter of your peace

Let your love cover me, Like a pair of angel wings,

You are my family, You are my family.

Ushmor tzeytenu uvo’enu,

ufros aleynu sukkat shelomecha.

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2 Elul 5786 / 14 August 2026

הַשְׁכִּיבֵנוּ Hashkiveinu

Traditional liturgy, new translation by Elliott batTzedek, song lyric and melody by Pierce Pettis

Amidah / Seven Breath Meditation

Rabbi Jill Hammer/ Kohenet

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ שְׁכִינָה אְֶלֹהֵנוּ רוּח הְעוֹלָם בּוֹרֵאת פְּרִי הַגּפֶן

B’rucha at Shekhinah eloheinu ruach ha’olam boreit p’ri hagefen

Blessed are you Shekhinah, spirit of the worlds, who creates the fruit of the vine.

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בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ שְׁכִינָה אְֶלֹהֵנוּ רוּח הְעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשַׁתְנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶיהָ וְרָצְתָה בָנוּ וְשַׁבַּת קָדְשָׁהּ בְּאַהֲבָה וּבְרָצוֹן הִנְחִילַתְנוּ זִכָּרוֹן לְמַעֲשֵׂה בְרֵאשִׁית. כִּי הוּא יוֹם תְּחִילָּה לְמִקְרָאֵי קֹדֶשׁ זֵכֶר לִיצִאַת מִצְרָיִם. כִּי אֵלִינוּ קָרָאתָה וְאוֹתָנוּ קִדַּשְׁתְּ לַעֲבוֹדָתֵּךְ וְשַׁבַּת קָדְשֵׁךְ בְּאַהֲבָה וּבְרָצוֹן הִנְחִילַתְנוּ. בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ שְׁכִינָה מְקַדֶּשֶׁת הַשַׁבַּת.

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B’rucha at Shekhinah eloheinu ruach ha’olam asher kid’shatnu b’mitzvoteha v’ratz’ta vanu v’shabat kid’sha b’ahavah uv’ratzon hinchilatnu zikaron l’ma’aseih v’reishit. Ki hu yom t’hilah l’mikra’ey kodesh zeiker litziat mitzrayim. Ki eleinu karatah v’otanu kidashet la’avodateich

v’shabat kadsheich b’ahavah uv’ratzon hin’chilatnu.

B’rucha at Shekhinah m’kadeshet hashabat.

קִדּוּשׁ / Kiddush

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What pushes back the dark is knowing

we are each living, breathing stars

linked in constellations of community

that arc across the sky. Our legacy

is the light we choose to leave behind,

which we don’t always see for ourselves.

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What I’m trying to say is that you have

no idea what kind of night someone

might be holding inside, and a single

soft word offered in passing can become

the north star that carries them home.

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In Dark Times

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James Crews

Aleynu / עָלֵינוּ

We begin wherever we can.

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We begin in our thoughts, in our one-on-one interactions, in our choices about how we will use what privilege we have.

We begin by talking about it.

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We begin with awareness.

We begin over and over and over.

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We begin by listening, by hearing our grief, our rage, our arrogance, our ignorance, our brainwashing.

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And beginning is no small thing.

Beginning is no small thing Carolyn Gage

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ALL

ALL

It Is Enough

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Anne Alexander Bingham

It is enough

to know that the atoms�of my body�will remain��to think of them rising�through the roots of a great oak�to live in�leaves, branches, twigs��perhaps to feed the�crimson peony�the blue iris�the broccoli��or rest on water�freeze and thaw�with the seasons��

Some atoms might become a�bit of fluff on the wing�of a chickadee�to feel the breeze�know the support of air��and some might drift�up and up into space�star dust returning from��whence it came�it is enough to know that�as long as there is a universe�I am a part of it.

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Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, of Cuba

Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, 42, of Honduras

Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz, 68, of Honduras

Parady La, 46, of Cambodia

Renee Nicole Good, 37, of the United States

Víctor Manuel Díaz, 36, of Nicaragua

Heber Sánchez Domínguez, 34, of Mexico

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Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, of the United States

Lorth Sim, 59, of Cambodia

Jairo Garcia Hernandez, 27, of Guatemala

Alberto Guiterrez Reyes, 48, of Mexico

Nural Amin Shah Alam, 56, Rohingya refugee

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Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, 59, of Iran

Emanuel Cleeford Damas, 56, of Haiti

Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, of Afghanistan

Royer Perez-Jimenez, 19, of Mexico

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March 2026

Daphy Michel, 31, of Haiti

José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano, 52, of Mexico

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Tuan Van Bui, 55, of Viet Nam

Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, of Mexico

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, 27, of Cuba

Denny Adan Gonzalez, 33, of Cuba

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Mamuka Artmeladze, 43, of Republic of Georgia

Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, 63, of Mexico

Adrian Andreas Florian, 85, of Germany

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, of Mexico

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 26, of Colombia

Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, of Venezuela

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, 29, of Mexico

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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, of El Salvador

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Yitgadal veyitkadash shemey raba be’alma divra hiruty veyamlih malhutey behayeyhon uvyomeyhon uvhayey dehol beyt yisra’el ba’agala uvizman kariv ve’imru amen.

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Yehey shemey raba mevarah le’alam ulalmey almaya.

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Yitbarah veyistabah veyitpa’ar veyitromam veyitnasey veyit-hadar veyitaleh veyit-halal shemey dekudsha berih hu le’ela min kol birhata veshirata tushbehata venehemata da’amiran be’alma ve’imru amen.

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Yehey shelama raba min shemaya vehayim Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’imru amen.

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Oseh shalom bimromav hu ya’aseh shalom Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’al kol yishma’el ve’al kol yoshvey tevel ve’imru amen.

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Mourner’s Kaddish קַדִּישׁ יָתוֹם

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Mourner’s Kaddish / Elliott batTzedek

So often am I lost,

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yet through the pall, yet through the tarnish, show me the way back,

through my betrayals, my dismay, my heart’s leak, my mind’s sway,

eyes’ broken glow, groan of the soul—which convey all that isn’t real,

for every soul to These Hands careen. And let us say, amen.

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Say you will show me the way back, my Rock, my Alarm. Lead the way, Oh my Yah

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And yet in shock and yet in shame and yet in awe and yet to roam and yet to stay and yet right here and yet away and yet —“Halleluyah!” my heartbeat speaks, for You live in all this murk and too in the clear and too in our wreckage.

You are the mirror of our souls, let us say: amen

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Life may harm me, rob me, ream me raw, try me, even slay me

Over all You will prevail. And let us say: Amen

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Say You shall loan me a tomorrow, Say You shall loan another day to all who are called Yisrael and all called Yishmael and all called We and They, and let us say, Amen

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Saturday September 19 Shabbat Shuvah

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