
Trisha Arlin
Trisha Arlin is a liturgist, teacher, performer and student of prayer in Brooklyn, NY and was a part-time rabbinic student at the Academy of Jewish Religion (AJR), 2012-18. Trisha was the Liturgist-In-Residence during the National Havurah Committee’s 2014 Summer Institute, has served as Scholar or Artist In Residence at many synagogues where she has read, led services and taught her class, Writing Prayer. since the pandemic began, Trisha has been on Zoom teaching prayer writing, sharing her liturgy and doing readings with Ritualwell, Haggadot.com, for synagogues around the country as well as small freelance groups. She is a founding builder of Bayit’s Liturgical Arts project. Trisha received a BA in Theater from Antioch College in 1975 and MFA in Film (Screenwriting) in 1997 from Columbia University. In 2009/2010, Trisha was an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute. In 2011, she graduated from the sixth cohort of the Davennen Leadership Training Institute (DLTI). A longtime member of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of our Lives, a progressive unaffiliated congregation in Brooklyn NY, Trisha’s liturgy has been used at services and ritual occasions and in newsletter there and at venues of many denominations around the world. Her work has been published in her book, Place Yourself: Words of Poetry and Intention (a collection of liturgy and kavannot. Foreword by Rabbi Jill Hammer, Artwork by Mike Cockrill. 2019 Dimus Parrhesia Press); the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion; Seder Tefillot, Forms of Prayer: Prayers for the High Holydays (Movement for Reform Judaism); B’chol Levavecha (CCAR Press); Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal (Bayit & Ben Yehuda Press); A Poet’s Siddur (Ain’t Got No Press); Studies in Judaism and Pluralism (Ben Yehuda Press) and can be found online at TrishaArlin.com, at RitualWell, and of course, the Open Siddur Project. You can support her work by buying her book, making a one time donation through PayPal @trishaarlin or monthly support via Patreon.
Barekh | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Congregation & Community | Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) | Rosh haShanah la-Behemah | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Motsei Shabbat | Mourning | Ḳabbalat Shabbat | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Se'udat Leil Shabbat | Rosh Ḥodesh Shəvat (שְׁבָט) | 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) | War | Well-being, health, and caregiving | the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (21 December)
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | American Jewry of the United States | עמידה amidah | animals | בהמות behemot | ברכת המוציא birkat hamotsi | bread | civic prayers | crawling things | Donald Trump | אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi | English poetry | English vernacular prayer | first person | food | four worlds | Fourth Day of Creation | gateway | Gaza | חלה challah ḥallah | הבדלות havdalot | חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh | insects | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Jewish Feminist Prayers | Justice | kindling | Kolot Chayeinu | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | memory | Miriam | neo-lurianic | New York | New York City | North America | paraliturgical amidah | paraliturgical havdalah | Passover | Passover seder | Prayers as poems | Prayers for Israel from the Diaspora | predatory nature | Psychopomp | refuah | שבת שירה shabbat shirah | shiva | solstice | צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof | וידוי vidui | winter | יזכור yizkor | yom tov | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
🆕 Find the Lily, a prayer-poem by Trisha Arlin
Contributed on: 30 Jan 2025 by Trisha Arlin | ❧
“Find the Lily” is a prayer-poem written in first person by Trisha Arlin. It was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 6 November 2024. . . .
🆕 A Prayer for Librarians, by Trisha Arlin
Contributed on: 30 Jan 2025 by Trisha Arlin | ❧
“A Prayer for Librarians” by Trisha Arlin was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 7 December 2024. . . .