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Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D.
Jill Hammer is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion. Jill is the author of two books: “Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women” (JPS, 01) and “The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons” (JPS, 06). She is the co-founder of the Kohenet Institute, a program in Jewish women's spiritual leadership. An essayist, poet, midrashist and ritualist, her work has been in publications including Zeek Magazine, The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, The Torah: A Women's Commentary, The Forward, The Jewish Spectator, and Lilith as well as on-line on many websites. Several of her divrei torah can be heard on soundcloud, thanks to the Romemu congregation.
Tashlikh | Ḥanukkah | Nirtsah | Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah) | Tu b'Av | the Wet Season (Fall & Winter) | the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (21 December)
acrostic | אדיר הוא Adir Hu | Alphabetic Acrostic | באנו חשך לגרש banu ḥoshekh l'garesh | Divine Feminine | eco-conscious | ecoḥasid | English vernacular prayer | גשם geshem | אמהות Imahot | Matriarchs | neo-lurianic | North America | פיוטים piyyutim | Prayers as poems | Prayers for Precipitation | Rain | תשליך tashlikh | תשובה teshuvah | זמירות zemirot | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
The Offering: A Tashlikh Prayer, by Rabbi Jill Hammer
Contributed on: 31 Aug 2019 by Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D. | ❧
Today I turned my heart toward the new year and wrote a prayer-poem for Tashlikh, the Rosh haShanah ritual of casting bread or stones into the water to cast off one’s past wrongdoings. . . .
