Velveteen Rabbi: A new poem for Pesach - with more to come blogs.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blogs.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Lately the drumbeat of lies, the erosion of rights feel like constant bombardment. I know incitement of hatred is never good for the Jews. I also know we re not the first generation to live like this. When bad news batters.
The only thing I know: we are not "there" yet, and I m not sure where "there" is or how we will feel or with what we will serve. It s scary not having a map to safety. Scarier still that some.
On Saturday night at second seder we ll begin counting the Omer: the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot, between liberation and revelation. Here are seven new prayer-poems for that journey, one for each week plus a prayer before counting,.