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Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Elul |
May we turn and return to glimpses of beauty and truth May this month and the year ahead May healing show the way May we lend each other faith May we bake muffins of kindness May this year be so sweet that May we be well-midwifed this year May we tend altars of forgiveness May our breadcrumbs feed the birds of transformation May there be a week in the coming year May we then dance about and around the Torah of our own lives May moonlight shine upon our May we enter into this turning time whole May it be a time of flowing ink from the pens of wisdom |
A blessing for announcing the new moon of Elul, for Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, and for the whole month. A poem of kindness, rootedness and transformation as we enter into a time of turning and returning.
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