
Louis Polisson
Louis Polisson is a musician, poet, and rabbi, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2018, where he also earned an MA in Jewish Thought focusing on Kabbalah and Ḥasidut. He currently serves as the Associate Rabbi and Music Director at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey. He previously served for five years as the solo clergy of Congregation Or Atid in Wayland, Massachusetts. Louis and his wife Gabriella Feingold released an album of original Jewish and nature-based spiritual folk music in November 2018 - listen here.
Epidemics & Pandemics | Learning, Study, and School | Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah) | the Wet Season (Fall & Winter) | Yom Kippur | 🇮🇱 Yom Tel Aviv (20 Nissan)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel | 2020 coronavirus pandemic | 2020 United States racial reckoning | Beit Tefillah Yisraeli | children | English vernacular prayer | first person | גשם geshem | interpretive translation | Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism | Jaffa | Maale Gilboa | Needing Translation (into Arabic) | Needing Vocalization | paraliturgical tefilat geshem | Parents blessing children | peace | Prayers as poems | prayers concerning children | Prayers on behalf of children | prayers for municipalities | Prayers for Precipitation | Prayers for students | Rain | rainfall | September 2020 Western United States wildfires | Tel Aviv | תשובה teshuvah | water cycle | water is life | Yaffo | Yapho | ישראל Yisrael | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
אדמה ושמים | Adamah v’Shamayim (Earth & Heaven), a prayer-poem by Rabbi Louis Polisson after the song by Shimon Lev-Tahor (Suissa)
Contributed on: 27 Sep 2020 by Louis Polisson | ❧
This poem was composed at the end of August 2020 / Elul 5780 as part of Rabbi Katy Allen’s Earth Etudes for Elul 5780. . . .