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Rachel Barenblat  Rachel BarenblatRabbi Rachel Barenblat (a/k/a the Velveteen Rabbi) serves Congregation Beth Israel of the Berkshires. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is author of six volumes of poetry, among them 70 faces: Torah poems (Phoenicia, 2011) and Texts to the Holy (Ben Yehuda, 2018). A founding builder at Bayit: Building Jewish, she resides in western Massachusetts. She has blogged as the Velveteen Rabbi since 2003. Filter resources by Category the Dry Season (Spring & Summer) | Magid | Modern Miscellany | Motsei Shabbat | Pesaḥ | Psuqei d'Zimrah/Zemirot l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov | Purim Readings | Ḳabbalat Shabbat | Minḥah l'Shabbat | the Shema | Terror | the Zohar | Seder Leil Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) Filter resources by Tag Boston | Breath | Cantillated readings in English | dreaming | eco-conscious | elegy | English poetry | English vernacular prayer | eros | Four Children | four worlds | haggadah supplements | הבדלות havdalot | interbreathing | interconnectedness | interpretation as prayer | interpretive translation | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Jewish Renewal | Massachusetts | Midrashic interpretation | neo-lurianic | נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai | North America | North American Jewry | paraliturgical havdalah | paraliturgical k'gavna | paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai | paraliturgical shema | paraliturgical teḥinot | Prayers as poems | קינות Ḳinōt | quiet | Return to Eden | sap | saraf | תחינות teḥinot | transtropilation | tropified texts | two minute meditations | United States | והיה אם שמע v'haya im shemo'a | water cycle | 59th Presidential Inauguration | United States General Election 2000 | 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing | 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Resources filtered by TAG: “2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? All Four (Are One), a prayer-poem for Passover by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (Bayit, 2024)Contributed by Rachel Barenblat | Bayit: Building Jewish | ❧ “All Four (Are One),” riffing on the story in the haggadah of the four children, is a prayer-poem on the theme of intracommunal discord six months after October 7th (possibly reflected in the family dynamics at the seder table itself). Written by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, it was first published on the website of Bayit: Building Jewish on 2 April 2024. . . . | ||
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