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Favorite Posts

Here are some of my favorite posts from over the years.

  • Almost time (2022)
  • A fog, a weight, a program running in the background (2021)
  • Being Real, Digital Edition (2020)
  • When surprises turn out just right: a conversion, though not as I planned (2018)
  • The gift of an immersive Shabbat (2018)
  • Renewing Judaism (2017)
  • Deep Ecumenism and being a mixed multitude (2017)
  • Ritual for ending a marriage (2016)
  • Immersion (2016)
  • i carry it in my heart (2015)
  • Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach: Version 8! (2015)
  • Channeling smicha for the first time (2015)
  • New beginnings, Doctor Who, and teshuvah (2014)
  • Remembering Reb Zalman (2014)
  • The spiritual work of wrestling with the both/and (2014)
  • Prayer for the Children of Abraham / Ibrahim (2012)
  • This is spiritual life (2011)
  • Three scenes from the day of my smicha (2011)
  • The Akedah Cycle: a sermon in poetry for the second day of Rosh Hashanah (2010)
  • Miscarriage poems: "Through"(2009)
  • On Transformative Works (2008)
  • A day in Bethlehem and Hebron (2008) - and the follow-up: Returning to Hebron on a Dual Narratives Tour (2014)
  • 13 Ways of Looking at Yom Kippur (2007)
  • Ruth: returning where we've never been (2007)
  • Prayer at Panim
  • ProgFaithBlogCon Roundup (2006)
  • Being visible (2006)
  • Defining Renewal (2005)
  • Facing impermanence (2005)
  • Beyond the Big Three (2004)
  • Elat Chayyim/Reb Zalman (2004)

And, one final link:

  • Elul/High Holiday poems, 2003-present

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