SINCE 2007

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It is

time

now

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And what a time to be alive

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שֶׁהֶחֱיָתְנוּ / Shehechiyatnu

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בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ בְּתוֹכֵינוּ רוּחַ הַעוֹלַם שֶׁהֶחֱיָתְנוּ וְקִיְּמָתְנוּ

וְהִגִּיעָתְנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה.

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B’rucha at Yah, b’tocheynu ruach ha’olam, shehecheyatnu v’kiy’matnu

v’higi’atnu lazman hazeh.

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Blessed are you, Yah, who is within us, spirit of the world, who has kept us in life, sustained us, and helped us to reach this moment.

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ALL

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Blessing for Pursuing Justice

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בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ שְכִינָה בְּתוֹכֵינוּ רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר

קִדְשָתְנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶיהָ וְצִוָתְנוּ לִרְדֹף צֶדֶק

B’rucha at Shekhinah, b’tocheynu, ruach ha’olam, asher kidshatnu b’mitzvoteha v’tzivatnu lirdof tzedek

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

the world, who infuses our lives with holiness

and commands us to pursue justice

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שׁיר חָדָשׁ/ Blessing for New Songs

Dorshei Derekh Women's Haftorah Group

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Bruchah At Yah, Simchat Ha-olam, בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ שִׂמְחַת הָעוֹלָם

asher m’oreret אֲשֶׁר מְאוֹרֶרֶת

rucheinu la-shir shir chadash רוּחֵינוּ לַשִׁיר שִׁיר חָדָשׁ.

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Blessed are You, Yah, Joy of the Universe,

who awakens our spirits

that we may sing a new song.

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from The art of

blessing the day

Marge Piercy

This is the blessing for a political victory:

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Although I shall not forget that things

work in increments and epicycles and sometime

leaps that half the time fall back down,

let’s not relinquish dancing while the music

fits into our hips and bounces our heels.

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We must never forget, pleasure is real as pain.

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Call

&

Response

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נְקָבִים חַלוּלִים / Openings and Vessels

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נְבָרֵך אֶת עֵן הַחַיִים אֲשֶׁר יָצַר אֶת הָאָדָם בְּחָכְמָה וּבָרָא בוֹ נְקָבִים נְקָבִים חַלוּלִים חַלוּלִים. גָלוּי וְיָדוּעַ לִפנֵי כִסֵּא כְבוֹדֵך שֶׁאִם יִפָּתֵחַ אֶחָד מֵהֶם אוֹ יִסָּתֵם אֶחָד מֵהֶם אִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהִתְקַיֵם וְלַעַמוֹד לְפָנֶיךָ.

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהוה רוֹפֵא כָל בָּשָׂר וּמַפְלִיא לַעַשׂוֹת.

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N’varech et ein hachayim asher yatzar et ha’adam bechochmah uvara vo nekavim nekavim chalulim chalulim. Galuwi veyadu’a lifney chisey chevodeich she’im yipate’ach echad mehem o yisatem echad mehem i efshar lehitkayem vela’amod lefanecha.

Baruch ata Yah rofey chol basar umafli la’asot.

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Let us bless how from the earth these bodies of wisdom were created, alive as they are, all open openings and holy holes.

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Unconcealed, revealed, we face the fate of our dignity:

if wrongly opened one would be, or wrongly closed another,

we know not how we could withstand.

Broken though this flesh can be,

broken though this world can be,*

still we love this life while we last.

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Blessed and blessing, we bow to both the healing of sleep

and the daily miraculous of awakening.

Call

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Response

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Radical Gratitude Spell

adrienne maree brown

You are a miracle walking.

I greet you with wonder, for in a world which seeks to own

your joy and your imagination

you have chosen to be free, every day, as a practice.

I can never know the struggles you went through to get here,

but I know you have swum upstream

and at times it has been lonely.

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I want you to know

I honor the choices you made in solitude

and I honor the work you have done to belong.

I honor your commitment to that which is larger than yourself

and your journey to love the particular container of life

that is you.

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Morning Blessings

Opening Phrase by Andrew Shaw

New Blessings by Elliott batTzedek

כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, הַמַּעֲבִירָה שֵׁנָה מֵעֵינַי וּתְנוּמָה מֵעַפְעַפָּי.

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, hama’avirah shenah mey’eynai ut’numah me’afapay

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who removes sleep from my eyes, slumber from my eyelids.

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לַשֶּׂכְוִי בִינָה לְהַבְחִין בֵּין יוֹם וּבֵין לָיְלָה.

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, asher natan l’shech’vi vinah l’hav’chin beyn yom uveyn laylah

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who has given the rooster understanding to distinguish day from night.

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הַעוֹלָמִים, שְהִקְדִישָה אֶת כָּל הִיצוּרִים

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, shehik’dishah et kol hitzurim

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who made all beings holy

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, שְׁנָתְנָה לִי אֶת הַרָצוֹן לִצְעֹד מְאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, sh’nat’nah li et haratzon litzod m’eretz mitzrayim

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who has placed in me the desire to march out of my oppression

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים,

שפָתְחָה אֶת הַמַחְשָׁבָה

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, sh’pat’chah et hamach’shavah

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who opens the mind.

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים,

מַלְבִּישָׁה עֲרֻמִּים.

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, mal’bishah adumim

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who clothes the naked.

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, מַתִּירָה אֲסוּרִים.

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim,

matir asurim

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who releases the bound.

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, זוֹקֶפֶת כְּפוּפִים.

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, zokefet k’fufim

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who lifts up the bent.

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, מִי בָרְאָה עוֹלָם שֶל עוֹשֶׁר

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, mi bar’ah olam shel osher

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who created an abundant world

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כָּל בְּרָכוֹת נוֹבְעוֹת מִן יָהּ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ, חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים, הַנּוֹתֶנֶת לַיָּעֵף כֹּחַ.

Kol b’rachot nov’ot min Yah, eloheynu, hey ha’olamim, hanotenet laya’ef ko’ah

All blessings flow from Yah, our God, life of the worlds, who gives strength to the weary.

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After Despair

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James Crews

Little by little, I feel myself

called back to the world. Holes

left by the woodpecker in a dead tree

console me with their evidence

of another living thing seeking

what it needs to survive. And mushrooms

that push up through layers of leaves

like huts hastily built against

the coming cold. Blade of moon

hung on the nail of a star in the night,

and the neighbor I pull over to greet

the next morning, how she reaches out

to rub my arm through the open window.

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You Reading This, Be Ready

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William Stafford

Starting here, what do you want to remember?

How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?

What scent of old wood hovers, what softened

sound from outside fills the air?

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Will you ever bring a better gift for the world

than the breathing respect that you carry

wherever you go right now? Are you waiting

for time to show you some better thoughts?

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When you turn around, starting here, lift this

new glimpse that you found; carry into evening

all that you want from this day. This interval you spent

reading or hearing this, keep it for life –

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What can anyone give you greater than now,

starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

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Praise What Comes

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Jeanne Lohmann

Surprising as unplanned kisses, all you haven't deserved

of days and solitude, your body's immoderate good health

that lets you work in many kinds of weather. Praise

talk with just about anyone. And quiet intervals, books

that are your food and your hunger; nightfall and walks

before sleep. Praising these for practice, perhaps

you will come at last to praise grief and the wrongs

you never intended. At the end there may be no answers

and only a few very simple questions: did I love,

finish my task in the world? Learn at least one

of the many names of God? At the intersections,

the boundaries where one life began and another

ended, the jumping-off places between fear and

possibility, at the ragged edges of pain,

did I catch the smallest glimpse of the holy?

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It is my love

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Susan Griffin

It is my love I hold back

hide

not wanting to be seen

scrawl of hand

writing

don’t guess

don’t guess at my

passion

a wholly wild and raging

love for this world.

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A blessing for this moment

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Rob Brezsny

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a blessing on the meals you cook

as democracy teeters

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a blessing on your healing hands

that mend what empire breaks

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a blessing on your quiet mornings

when you choose to rise again

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a blessing on the stories you preserve

when others would erase them

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a blessing on your vigilant heart

beating strong through the storm of cruelty

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a blessing on the seeds you scatter

in neglected spaces

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a blessing on your fierce protection

of all things small and wild

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ALL

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a blessing on the wisdom you gather

from elders and from earth

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a blessing on your careful documentation

of what must not be lost

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a blessing on your mutual aid networks

flowering in oligarchy's rotting shadow

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a blessing on your kitchen table strategies

where sly revolution simmers

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a blessing on the wild songs you sing

when courage starts to falter

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a blessing on your strategic joy

deployed against despair

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a blessing on the future

being born in what you do

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ALL

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A blessing for this moment

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Rob Brezsny

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a blessing on the bridges you build

between wounded communities

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a blessing on your sacred rage

that fuels the work of redemptive justice

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a blessing on the hope you sustain

when vulgar bullies assault hope

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a blessing on your children's children

who will know what you defended

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a blessing on the healing

you dare to imagine now

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ALL

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A blessing for this moment

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Rob Brezsny

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from The art of

blessing the day

Marge Piercy

The discipline of blessings is to taste

each moment, the bitter, the sour, the sweet

and the salty, and be glad for what does not

hurt.

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The art is in compressing attention

to each little and big blossom of the tree

of life, to let the tongue sing each fruit,

its savor, its aroma and its use.

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Response

Ode to Yes

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Susan Windle

Yes.

Yes is a vulnerable word.

It leaves you wide open

like a tree.

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Make the sound.

Notice the longing in the back of your throat.

Send it out now through your lips:

the best dream you have-

full of hope.

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It doesn't matter that your leaves

will leave.

It doesn't matter what the others

see or say.

The beautiful yes of trees

will stand

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and breathe

life, health

to the struggling creatures

of this world.

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Enough

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Jeffrey Harrison

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It's a gift, this cloudless November morning

warm enough to walk without a jacket

along your favorite path. The rhythmic shushing

of your feet through fallen leaves should be

enough to quiet the mind, so it surprises you

when you catch yourself telling off your boss

for a decade of accumulated injustices,

all the things you've never said circling inside you.

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The rising wind pulls you out of it,

and you look up to see a cloud of leaves

wheeling in sunlight, flickering against the blue

and lifting above the treetops, as if the whole day

were sighing, Let it go, let it go,

for this moment at least, let it all go.

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from The art of

blessing the day

Marge Piercy

Attention is love, what we must give

children, mothers, fathers, pets,

our friends, the news, the woes of others.

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What we want to change we curse and then

pick up a tool.

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Bless whatever you can

with eyes and hands and tongue.

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If you

can’t bless it, get ready to make it new.

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Response

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Any Common Desolation

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Ellen Bass

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Any common desolation

can be enough to make you look up�at the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the few�that survived the rains and frost, shot�with late afternoon sun. They glow a deep�orange-gold against a blue so sheer, a single bird�would rip it like silk. You may have to break�your heart, but it isn’t nothing�to know even one moment alive. The sound�of an oar in an oarlock or a ruminant�animal tearing grass. The smell of grated ginger.�The ruby neon of the liquor store sign.�Warm socks. You remember your mother,�her precision a ceremony, as she gathered�the white cotton, slipped it over your toes,�drew up the heel, turned the cuff. A breath�can uncoil as you walk across your own muddy yard,�the big dipper pouring night down over you, and everything�you dread, all you can’t bear, dissolves�and, like a needle slipped into your vein—�that sudden rush of the world.

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This Time

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Aurora Levins Morales

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They say that other country over there, dim blue in the twilight, farther than the orange stars exploding over our roofs, is called peace, but who can find a way?

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This time we cannot cross until we carry each other.

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All of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history’s wheel trying to collect old debts no one can pay.

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The sea will not open that way.

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This time that country is what we promise each other, our rage pressed cheek to cheek until tears flood the space between, until there are no enemies left, because this time no one will be left to drown, and all of us must be chosen.

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This time it’s all of us, or none.

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This Time

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Aurora Levins Morales

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This time it’s all of us, or none.

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This time it’s all of us, or none.

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This time it’s all of us, or none.

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call & Response

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

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call & Response

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?

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from Gnawed Bones

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Peggy Shumaker

If every day

re-enacts creation,

if we live

here, now

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in the first world

and the last,

let us speak

in our bones

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languages of water

from all skies, from

deep underground.

Let our bones quench

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the thirst of history,

thirst for all we yearn

to sip, marrow

of each dry tongue

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בִּרְכַּת יְצִירָה

Blessing of Creation

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Blessed are

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Rev. Anna Blaedel

blessed are you who are raging.

blessed are you who are mourning.

blessed are you who feel numb.

blessed are you who feel sick. and tired. and sick and tired.

blessed are you who refuse to turn away.

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blessed are you who need to turn away.

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blessed are you who keep breathing deep.

blessed are you who are tending to your own needs.

blessed are you who are tending to the needs of another.

blessed are you who have been calling.

blessed are you who have been organizing.

blessed are you who have been testifying.

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blessed are you who have been hearing.

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ALL

ALL

דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָה/ Blessing for Revelation of Wisdom

Blessed are

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Rev. Anna Blaedel

blessed are you who have been resisting.

blessed are you who feel broken open beyond repair.

blessed are you who are raw beyond words.

blessed are you who are working hotlines and crisis care centers and bearing witness to the forces of violence and trauma unleashed and unloosed.

blessed are you who are marching.

blessed are you who are weeping.

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blessed are you who know deep in your bones that you are good. and beautiful. and beloved. and sacred. and worthy. and believed. and held. and capable of healing beyond your wildest imagination.

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blessed are you who remind others they are good. and beautiful. and beloved. and sacred. and worthy. and believed. and held. and capable of healing beyond their wildest imagination.

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ALL

ALL

דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָה/ Blessing for Revelation of Wisdom

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call & Response

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”

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שְׁמַע / Sh’ma

Ariadne Joy Lieber

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שְׁמַע אמִי 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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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

/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.

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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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טוֹמֶנֶת בְחֻבָהּ הַכָרָה בְהַשּׁלְכוֹת

tomenet bechuvah hakharah behashel’khot

Recognizing the consequences is mandatory

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

אַרְבַּע כַּנְפוֹת Arba Kanfot / Four Corners

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The mitzvah of tzitzit lives within our bodies, and as we look upon each other

we remember what this community was formed to do:

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To hold fast to each other’s frayed edges.

To knot those edges into firm hand-holds.

To wrap our dreams around our fears and to display our tzitzit as evidence and witness.

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Together we smooth the world’s sharp corners into the wings of the Shekhinah,

under which we shelter one another.

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Into our tzitzit are woven the ways we’ve known holiness in our world. When we see them we remember, and when we remember, we act — protecting each person, each place, each animal, each river and lake and ocean, each tree, each stone, each wind-blown cloud in each patch of sky that together form the one single body that is this world.

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אַרְבַּע כַּנְפוֹת Arba Kanfot / Four Corners

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הַצִּיצִית שֶׁאָנוּ מַחְזִיקֵיהָ בְּיָדֵינוּ הִיא יָדֵנוּ

hatzitzitzit she’anu mach’zikeyha b’yadeinu hi yadenu

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וּמִצְּבִּיעָה עַל מָה שֶׁאָנוּ יוֹדְעֵיהָ כִּיְהוּדוֹל

umatzbi’ah al mah she’anu yod’eiha ki’hudol

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- שְׁעָלֵינוּ לִרְאוֹת ולִזְכּוֹר-יֹפִי-תֵּבֵל

she’aleinu lir’ot v’liz’cor-yophi-tevel

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This tzitzit we hold in our hands is our yad,

and points to what we know as Jews -

that it is upon us to see and to remember the beauty of the world

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Blessed this edge where we wait, balancing, barely.

Will we choose to liberate

or choose to leave enslaved?

Blessed are we

when our choosings

begin to form redemption

from every fragment

from any raw material.

Sacred, this act

of taking responsibility

for the future of the worlds.

We will wrap ourselves in this knowing-

carry it across silence and sea

into a future

hanging

in the balance.

Blessing of Redemption

מָקוֹר תּקּוּן עוֹלֶּם

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Elliott batTzedek

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Amidah / Seven Breath Meditation

Rabbi Jill Hammer/ Kohenet

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Blessing Before Reading Torah

Dorshei Derekh Women's Haftorah Group

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בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ עֵין הַחַיִים אַשֵׁר מוֹשָׁה דִבְרֵי תוֹרָה

מִמַיִם-חַיִים בְּרַחַמִים רָבִּים

Bruchah At Yah, ein ha-chayim, asher moshah divrei Torah

mi-mayim chayim b’rachamim rabim.

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Blessed are you, Yah, Source of Life, who with abundant compassion draws words of Torah from living waters.

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בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ שְכִינָה רוּחַ הָעוֹלָם הַגּוֹמֵל לְחַיָּבִים טוֹבוֹת שֶׁגְּמָלַֽנִי כָּל טוֹב

B’rucha at Shekhinah, ruach ha’olam, hagomel l’chey’vim tovot sheg’ge’malani kol tov

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Blessed are You, Shechinah, spirit of the Universe, Who has bestowed every goodness upon me.

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 מִי שֶׁגְּמָלֶךְ טוֹב הִיא תּיִגְמָלֵךְ כָּל־טוֹב סֶלָה

Mi sheg’ge’malech tov hi t’yig’malech kol-tov selah

She Who has bestowed goodness upon you, may She bestow every goodness upon you, forever.

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Blessing After Reading Torah

Dorshei Derekh Women's Haftorah Group

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בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ אֱלֹהֵינוּ לֵב הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר שָׂמַה לֵב אֵלֵינוּ וְשׁוֹמָעַת

קוֹל לִבֵּינוּ רַחֲמִי עָלֵינוּ וְיִשָׁמַע קוֹל דְמָמָה דָקָה

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Bruchah At Yah, Eloheinu Lev Ha-olam, asher samah lev eileinu v’shoma’at

kol libeinu; rachami aleinu v’yishama kol d’mamah dakah

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Blessed are You, Yah, Heart of the Universe, who attends to us and hears the voice of our hearts; have compassion on us and make audible the still, small voice.

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Aleynu / עָלֵינוּ

We stand in the midst of a burning world

primed to burn with compassionate love and justice,

to turn inward and find holy fire at the core,

to turn outward and see the world that is all

of one flesh with us, see under the trash, through

the smog, the furry bee in the apple blossom,

the trout leaping, the candles our ancestors lit for us.

from Nishmat by Marge Piercy

Fill us as the tide rustles into the reeds in the marsh.

Fill us as the rushing water overflows the pitcher.

Fill us as light fills a room with its dancing.

Let the little quarrels of the bones and the snarling

of the lesser appetites and the whining of the ego cease.

Let silence still us so you may show us your shining

and we can out of that stillness rise and praise.

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Let Me Please Look

Into My Window

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Gerald Stern

Let me please look into my window on 103rd Street one more time—

without crying, without tearing the satin, without touching

the white face, without straightening the tie or crumpling the flower.

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Let me walk up Broadway past Zak's, past the Melody Fruit Store,

past Stein's Eyes, past the New Moon Inn, past the Olympia.

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Let me leave quietly by Gate 29

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and fall asleep as we pull away from the ramp

into the tunnel.

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Let me wake up happy, let me know where I am, let me lie still,

as we turn left, as we cross the water, as we leave the light.

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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, a Rohingya refugee

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Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, 59, of Iran

Emanuel Cleeford Damas, 56, of Haiti

Daphy Micah, 31, of Haiti

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Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, of Afghanistan

Royer Perez-Jimenez, 19, of Mexico

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

Lian Yong Wei, 51, of China

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Carlos Josue Marchena-Marchena, 36, of Costa Rica

Julian Curo-Churata, 47, of Peru

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Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, 56, of Mexico

Luis Sandoval, 48, of El Salvador

Guillermo Pascual Verganza, 43, of Guatemala

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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

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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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