Aryeh Cohen
Aryeh Cohen is a professor, a social justice activist, a rabbi, and a lecturer. He teaches all things Rabbinic Literature (Mishnah, Talmud, midrash) and social justice at the Ziegler School for Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University. Prof. Cohen is a founder and member of the Shtibl Minyan, a former chair of the Boards of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and CLUE. He is the co-convener of the Black Jewish Justice Alliance and is the author of Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism (2012).
Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers | Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Maariv Aravim | Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry | 🇮🇱 Yitsḥaq Rabin Memorial Day (4 November, 12 Marḥeshvan) | 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel) | Tishah b'Av | War | Yom Kippur
2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war | assassination | Assassination of Yitsḥaq Rabin | Bar Mitsvah | בת מצוה Bat Mitsvah | brit milah | circumcision | elegies | empathy | English vernacular prayer | Gaza | Immigration policy of Donald Trump | infants | לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi | מעריבים maarivim | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | naming | North America | אוי oy | Parents blessing children | פיוטים piyyuṭim | prayers for adolescents | Prayers for leaders | Prayers of Primary Caregivers | prime minister | קינות Ḳinōt | סליחות səliḥot | Separation | שמחת בת simḥat bat | United States Immigration Policy | welcome the immigrant | ישראל Yisrael | Yitsḥaq Rabin | Yom Kippur | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Contributed by: Aryeh Cohen
This is a prayer for Yom Kippur. It started out as a meditation on Yizkor, hence the אל מלא רחמים form at the beginning. It quickly changed to a prayer for insight and change and the possiblity of tshuvah in this moment.

