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Avi Dolgin
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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Tashlikh
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eco-conscious, water, four worlds, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Teva Learning Center, תשליך tashlikh
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Avi Dolgin shares his mindful practice for maintaining “tashlikh consciousness” in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah. . . . |
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David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
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Cacophany, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)
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Breslov, clapping, Coronation, ecoḥasid, Ḥasidic, Public Amidah, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, Atah Qadosh (Third Blessing of the Amidah), קדושה Qedushah, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov)
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In Uman, Ukraine (and in [the Breslov [community] in general) during the repetition of Rosh Hashanah Musaf, when when the ḥazan gets to the special brokha in the Amidah for Yamim Nora’im [the Days of Awe]: . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)
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eco-conscious, peace, humor, זמירות zemirot, Teva Learning Alliance, punning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish Farming
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A pun filled ditty by the Fall 2010 Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Noson Sternhartz of Nemyriv
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Solitude
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19th century C.E., eco-conscious, Breslov, תחינות teḥinot, Openers, 56th century A.M., Prayers for Praying, Ḥasidic, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov)
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A prayer for entering hitbodedut (solitary meditation, preferably in a natural setting), by Reb Noson of Nemyriv, as adapted from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman of Bratslav. . . . |
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Pesach Dahvid Stadlin, Nader Abdallah (translation) and أحمد (translation)
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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession
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love, peace, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine, Syria, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Egypt, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Arabic translation, Arab Spring, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, ישראל Yisrael, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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A song in English with Arabic translation, addressed from a Jew living in Jerusalem to his Arab neighbors, locally and regionally during the Arab Spring. . . . |
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Arthur Waskow, the Shalom Center and Yeshayahu ben Amōts
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Yeshayah (Isaiah), Yom Kippur Readings
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20th century C.E., interpretive translation, liberation, Jewish Renewal, 58th century A.M., Midrashic interpretation, Isaiah 57, Isaiah 58, Isaiah
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As we move not just toward a new “year” (shanah) but toward a moment when repetition (sheni) becomes transformation (shinui), I hope we will remember the roots of Jewish renewal in the upheavals of the 1960s as well as the upheavals of the 1760s, the roots of Judaism in the great “political” speeches of the Prophets, and the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who said that in a great civil rights march his legs were praying, and who argued again and again that “spirituality” and “politics” cannot be severed. As Heschel also said, “Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive.” . . . |
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Jessica Minnen
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Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Liturgical traditions
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תהלים Psalms, Tehillim, d'var t'fillah, אלול elul, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, predation, predatory nature, Psalms 27, cannibalism, תשובה teshuvah
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As the month of Elul wanes, we are preparing. We prepare for the new moon, we prepare for Rosh Hashanah, and we prepare for the zombie invasion. I have it on good authority, as do you, that the onslaught is imminent. The alarm blares every morning — a shofar blast and a warning… . . . |
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