
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 | Magid | Motsei Shabbat | Mourning | Rosh haShanah la-Behemah | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Se'udat Leil Shabbat | War | Well-being, health, and caregiving | Ḳabbalat Shabbat | Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) | Rosh Ḥodesh Shəvat (שְׁבָט) | 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) | the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (21 December)
American Jewry of the United States | animals | bread | civic prayers | crawling things | Donald Trump | English poetry | English vernacular prayer | first person | food | four worlds | Fourth Day of Creation | gateway | Gaza | insects | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Jewish Feminist Prayers | Justice | kindling | Kolot Chayeinu | 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 | shiva | solstice | winter | yom tov | אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi | בהמות behemot | ברכת המוציא birkat hamotsi | הבדלות havdalot | וידוי vidui | חלה challah ḥallah | חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh | יזכור yizkor | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | עמידה amidah | פרשת וארא parashat Va'era | צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof | שבת שירה shabbat shirah | 21st century C.E. | 47th President of the United States | 58th century A.M. | 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
Meat and Feathers: We Confess, a vidui for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah (the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals), by Trisha Arlin
Contributed by Trisha Arlin | ❧
Trisha Arlin first published this prayer for a communal confession on Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot on her liturgy site, here. Elements of this vidui (confession) are derived from the Kavvanah before Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul for Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot (New Year’s Day for Domesticated Animals). . . .