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 feels deeply grateful and honored to have recently started serving as the Senior Rabbi at Congregation B'nai Israel in Northampton, Massachusetts, on an amazing campus that includes Abundance Farm, The Ohel Minyan, and Lander-Grinspoon Academy. He previously served as the Associate Rabbi and Music Director at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey from 2023-2026 and as the solo clergy of Congregation Or Atid in Wayland, Massachusetts from 2018-2023. 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 | 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.
Contributed by: Louis Polisson
A paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret.

