תפילה בין השריפות (קצרה) | Abridged Prayer Between the Fires for Lev and Lag ba-Omer (neohasid.org)

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David Seidenberg, Arthur Waskow, neohasid.org and the Shalom Center

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Yom haMabul (Day of the Flood, 17 Iyyar, Lev ba-Omer)

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ל״ג בעומר lag baomer, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

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	On this day, the day when (or: after) the Flood began, this day when we prepare to kindle fires for Lag Ba’Omer, we share a unique burden.
	We are the first generation to understand what the Floods could mean: The Flood of Noaḥ, when the Water of Life undid Life, and the Flood of Malachi, the Flood of Fire.
	We are the generation standing between the fires:
	Behind us the flame and smoke that rose from Auschwitz, from Hiroshima. Before us the nightmare of a Flood of Fire and Water, from the burning of the Amazon and the melting of the Antarctic, “the day that comes burning like an oven,”^[1] Malachi 4:1 a day when our flames could consume so much of the earth.
	It is our task to make from fire not an all-consuming blaze but a light in which we can see each other fully. All of us different, All of us bearing One Spark.
	Let us light the fires of Lag Ba’Omer to see more clearly that the earth and all who live as part of it are not for burning.
	Let us light our fires to see more clearly the rainbow in the many-hued faces Of all life.
	Blessed is the One within the many. Blessed are the many who embody the One.
	“Here! I am sending you Elijah the Prophet Before the coming of the great and terrible day of YAH, the Breath of Life. And he shall turn the heart Of fathers for children And the heart of children for their fathers. Lest I come and strike the earth utterly.”^[2] Malachi 4:5-6
	Here we stand before the great and terrible day —
	Let us turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents so that this day of smiting does not fall upon us or our children.^[3] Cf. Malachi 4:5-6
	“And then the Sun of Righteousness will shine forth and heal with her wings.”^[4] Malachi 4:2
	Ken Y’hi Ratzon, So May It Be.

“Between the Fires” by Rabbi David Seidenberg, originally published at neohasid.org, is derived from the prayer of Rabbi Arthur Waskow (the Shalom Center), “Between the Fires: A Prayer for lighting Candles of Commitment” which draws on traditional midrash about the danger of a Flood of Fire, and the passage from Malachi. Another version of this prayer by Rabbi David Seidenberg, “A Prayer between the Fires (between the 32nd and 42nd days of the Omer)” is available, here. Text in green is added by Rabbi Seidenberg. Text in black by Rabbi Waskow.

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Notes
1	Malachi 4:1
2	Malachi 4:5-6
3	Cf. Malachi 4:5-6
4	Malachi 4:2

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David Seidenberg

Rabbi David Seidenberg, founder of NeoHasid.org, teaches text and music, Jewish thought and spirituality, in their own right and in relation to ecology and the environment. With smikhah (ordination) from the Jewish Theological Seminary and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, he has taught at over 100 synagogues, communities, retreats and conferences across North America (and a few in Europe and Israel). Rabbi Seidenberg's teaching empowers learners to become creators of Judaism through deep study and communion with texts and tradition. Areas of specialty include Kabbalah and Ḥasidut, Talmud, davenning, evolution and cosmology, sustainability, Maimonides, Buber, and more. Rabbi Seidenberg has published widely on ecology and Judaism and is the author of Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Arthur Waskow

Rabbi Arthur Waskow is the director of The Shalom Center. In 2013, Rabbi Waskow received T’ruah’s first Lifetime Achievement Award as a “Human Rights Hero.” His chapter, “Jewish Environmental Ethics: Adam and Adamah,” appears in Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (Dorff & Crane, eds.; Oxford Univ. Press, 2013). Rabbi Waskow is the author of 22 books including Godwrestling, Seasons of Our Joy (JPS, 2012), and Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life. With Sister Joan Chittister and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisht he co-authored The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and with with Rabbi Phyllis Berman wrote Freedom Journeys: Exodus & Wilderness Across Millennia (Jewish Lts, 2011). He edited Torah of the Earth (two volumes, eco-Jewish thought from earliest Torah to our own generation). These pioneering books on eco-Judaism are available at discount from “Shouk Shalom,” The Shalom center's online bookstore.

neohasid.org

NeoHasid.org was created by Rabbi David Seidenberg to help folks integrate ḥasidic song, learning, and nusaḥ into their davenning and communities and to explore embodied Torah. It evolved to focus on eco-Torah and to share liturgy that honors our relationship with the Earth and/or expresses gender parity.

the Shalom Center

Founded by Arthur Waskow, the Shalom Center equips activists and spiritual leaders with awareness and skills needed to lead in shaping a transformed and transformative Judaism that can help create a world of peace, justice, healing for the earth, and respect for the interconnectedness of all life.

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