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☞ Self-Reflection
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on א׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ו (2016-02-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Environment, Blessings Before Eating, Halakhah, Self-Reflection
Tags:  blessings, eco-conscious, ברכות brakhot, ecoḥasid 
The Talmud (Brakhot 35a-b) teaches that eating food without saying a brakhah (a blessing) beforehand is like stealing. A lot of people know that teaching, and it’s pretty deep. But here’s an even deeper part: the Talmud doesn’t call it “stealing”, but מעילה ׁ(“me’ilah“), which means taking from sacred property that belongs to the Temple. So that means that everything in the world is sacred and this Creation is like a HOLY TEMPLE. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Wolkin
Shared on כ״ב באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Days of Awe (Yamim Nora'im), Self-Reflection
Tags: North America, journaling, writing, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, self-reflection, תשובה teshuvah, Needing Translation (into Hebrew) 
David Wolkin writes, “I’ve been pushing this writing exercise for a while now, but I taught a class with it in my home on Sunday and it proved to be powerful and connecting for all of us in the room. If you’re reflecting/repenting this season, you might benefit from this.” . . . 
Contributor(s): Daniel Yoel Cohen
Shared on ז׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ז (2016-10-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yom Kippur, Days of Awe (Yamim Nora'im), Self-Reflection
Tags: וידוי vidui, repentance, integrity, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acknowledgment, paraliturgical vidui 
Vidui means acknowledgment. It is not about self-flagellation or blame, but about honesty, coming into contact with our lives, our patterns and experiences, and ultimately about teshuva and learning. In contacting the pain and suffering which our modes of being have given rise to, our regret can help us to willfully divest ourselves of them and awaken the yearning for those modes of being which are life-affirming, supportive of wholeness, connection, integrity, and flourishing. With each one we tap on our heart, touching the pain and closed-heartedness we have caused, and simultaneously knocking on the door that it may open again. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oren Steinitz
Shared on ה׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ו (2016-04-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Weekday Amidah, Self-Reflection
Tags: standing meditation 
As powerful a practice as a standing meditation may be, reciting the familiar words of the Amidah with intention can prove to be a major challenge. The words may become rote, and the davvener may wonder if the ancient formulas are even meaningful to them. In this adaptation of the Amidah, Oren Steinitz treats each B’rakhah as a prompt to remind ourselves what we are praying for and shares his own thoughts as an example. Rabbi Steinitz originally wrote the “Memory Amidah” in 2013, during the Davennen Leadership Training Institute cohort 7, and revised it for sharing here through the Open Siddur Project in 2016. . . . 
Contributor(s): Josh Rosenberg
Shared on ה׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ח (2017-09-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Days of Awe (Yamim Nora'im), Self-Reflection, Separation
Tags: סליחות seliḥot, אלול זמן Elul Zman, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., self-forgiveness, Due deferrence, Between people, beyn adam l'adam, tokheḥa, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah 
A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . . 
Contributor(s): Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Shared on י׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ו (2016-02-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Self-Reflection
Tags: 20th century C.E., free will, bitul neshama, reception, consolation, 58th century A.M. 
The one who prays to Hashem Yitbarakh should hold the belief that, from the start, there was a cause brought about by the everlasting One, and that S/He is the source of all completions, and S/He created all the worlds at the time when it arose in Hir will. . . . 
Contributor(s): Eden Pearlstein
Shared on כ״ב במרחשון ה׳תשע״ב (2011-11-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Self-Reflection
Tags: hip hop, שדים sheydim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish animism 
‘Life Sentence’ is a poetic exploration of solitary authorship — interpreting the old-world literary tradition and archetypes for the ‘ADD’ generation. This is a boundary and genre-crossing work that exists at the intersection of Radical Jewish, Indy and Hip-Hop culture. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
Shared on כ״ב באייר ה׳תשע״ג (2013-05-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Self-Reflection
Tags: North America, reflective practice, journaling, writing, petiḥah, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., פתיחות Petiḥot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English
May my thoughts seek truth and integrity, the humility that is commensurate with my ignorance, the compassion that arises from the depths of awareness, as depths speak to depths… . . . |
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