A Blessing for Salt Elliott batTzedek & Karen Escovitz At my seder we pretty much bless everything on the table, including the flowers, the water, and the salt. After all, in Jewish tradition, you can't eat something until you've blessed it, so how can we possibly dip into salt water until we've blessed both? … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 04/07/2017 – A Ritual to Bless Salt on Pesach
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Praying with Fringes 04/05/2017 – A Ritual for Welcoming Your Ancestors to Your Seder
A Ritual for Welcoming Your Ancestors to Your Seder Elliott batTzedek Leader: Draw to your mind your ancestors—genetic or spiritual. Imagine them in the different places they lived, the lands and seas they traveled, by choice and for their lives, in freedom and enslaved. Imagine them holding what was precious to them, imagine this gift … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 04/05/2017 – A Ritual for Welcoming Your Ancestors to Your Seder
Praying with Fringes 4/04/2017 – We will wrap ourselves in this knowing
On the edge of Pesach Elliott batTzedek Blessed this edge where we wait, balancing, weighing our own lives. Will we choose, finally, liberation- meaning everyone- or will we choose ourselves and leave others behind still enslaved? Blessed are we when our choosings begin to form redemption from every fragment from any raw material. Sacred is … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 4/04/2017 – We will wrap ourselves in this knowing
Maggid
Maggid: This is the story we tell Elliott batTzedek This is the story we tell: We were a small tribe, extended family, really, in a small part of a small land. Drought came. We followed the rumors of food and water, immigrated to where a family member had set already a footprint. We stayed there, … Continue reading Maggid
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah 