Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (a/k/a Velveteen Rabbi) serves Congregation Beth Israel in North Adams, MA. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is author of five volumes of poetry, among them 70 faces: Torah poems (Phoenicia, 2011) and Texts to the Holy (Ben Yehuda, 2018). A leader in Jewish Renewal (former co-chair of ALEPH, now a senior builder at Bayit: Your Jewish Home) she resides in western Massachusetts. She has blogged as the Velveteen Rabbi since 2003.
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- Saturday Afternoon Request by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
Categories: the Shabbat Service, Shabbat Minḥah Tags: eros, dreaming, teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Return to Eden, quiet
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- תפילת טל | A Prayer for Dew, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
Categories: Dry Season, Pesaḥ, Nisan, Essays, Documents, Art, and Craft Tags: water cycle, eco-conscious, North America, Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, North American Jewry
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