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Rachel Barenblat
Rabbi 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.
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)
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.
💬 Purim 2021: From Darkness to Light, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat & Rabbi David Evan Markus (Bayit, 2021)
Contributed by David Evan Markus | Rachel Barenblat | Bayit: Building Jewish | ❧
Tropified texts for Purim 2021 juxtaposing the text of Queen Esther with the words of Vice President Kamalla Harris and poet laureate Amanda Gorman. . . .
