High Holidays
eco-Torah – liturgy – gender-egal
teachings – songs – customs
A Rosh Hashanah seder for Shmitah
Symbolic foods (aka blessing spells) for the evening meal
A Selichot Piyut for Shmita (Sabbatical year) - 5782
Four themes of Shmita in four lines, fitting into the service on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah or Yom KippurHayom Harat Olam: Rosh Hashanah and the Birthing of Our Planet
A unique reading of the words we say when we hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.Clouds, Yom Kippur, and Climate Change: In the Balance
Are our environmental "sins" are like an 'av, a thick cloud that will storm us, or like an 'anan, a cloud that ultimately will pass on?Tashlikh teaching
Tashlikh was written at a time when no one could have imagined that human actions could deplete entire oceans. With meditations on the ocean from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Pope Francis's prayer for our Earth ~ in Hebrew The Pope's prayer from Laudato Si in side-by-side English and liturgical Hebrew.An environmental Al Chet
For the sin of destroying God's creation... Hu Ya'aneinu (fathers and mothers) for Yom Kippur Eve and Selichot pdf God Answered the Mothers too! Hu Ya'aneinu, "God will answer us", with verses for the mothers and the fathers together. PDF with linear Hebrew and English.Hayom a la Chabad mp3
A lively version of the well-loved song "Hayom" from the end of Rosh Hashanah musafG'mar Chasimah Tovah – a resampling of a familiar tune
A Chabad nigun for the Rosh Hashanah greeting, suitable for ecstatic circle dancing at the end of Rosh Hashanah musaf and other Hi-Ho services. Who says, I will sin and then atone... One who says, I will sin and I will return, I will sin and I will returnthere is not enough in his hand to do t'shuvah...