Parshat Nitzavim
God, I cry out to you, from the depths, I pray that my voice reaches your, if you will, ears. even when I’m silent, even when I can’t...
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parshat ki tavo
when the world is too dark, when it pressed downs upon your back, on your body, the weight crushing, squeezing, breaking you, beyond a...
parshat ki titzei
through prayer, i call You into being, stand You before me. no longer hidden, third person singular, impersonal and removed. but through...
parshat shoftim
even if I believed you, that salvation will come quick, that we’ll be saved in a blink of an eye. there is no I left to believe you....
parshat re'eh
Parshat Re’eh, August 23, 1941 who is hiding from whom? is it you hiding from us, my dove in the rock, i beg you, show yourself to me....
Parshat Ekev
I can’t do without you, I’m not always fit to be your teacher, Sometimes my wings are crushed, My spirit broken, But if you seek me out,...
Shabbat Nachamu
for these, i cry, and for these, i will not be comforted. there are some losses for which there can be comfort. and there are some losses...
parshat hazon
there are ten words for prophecy, the harshest of all, prophecy of vision. speaking and talking of pain are not the same as seeing pain...
parshat matot-masei
“in pain shall you bear children” she squats in the field, surrounded by women, who wipe her sweat, hold her legs, who speak to her in...
parshat pinhas
the doubts creep in, the questions late at night, that roll over and over, in my head. how long will this go on? can I bear it? what does...
parshat hukat
God, make me a body, a body of Torah, a body of compassion. let my words of my lips be action. let my heart, God-forbid, dissolve touched...
parshat balak
with words, the Holy One created the world, but through God’s hands, the Holy One created us. holiness spilling forth, beyond the...
Parshat Shlah
put logic aside, put reason on hold. there may be no way forward. we don’t know how this is going to turn out, where we’re going to end...
Parshat Beha'alotkha
bent over and broken, this is not the way. there’s no place for prayer here. world-upside down, your goodness hidden, how can we serve...
Naso
It begins and ends with love. Take any love, That fills your heart. For your partner, Your child, Even a favorite object. Let that love...
behar
A world contained in the details. God cares not only, About the big picture, The broad strokes, Did you check off the box of commitment...
parshat emor
blessed are You, giver of the Torah, to us, your people. we who are human, we who make mistakes, we who knowing and unknowingly read Your...
Kedoshim
I want to rise up, To reach you, I do. But, how can I, When I am crushed and broken, When I don’t even know my own self. I want to rise...
metzora
crumbling walls and broken hearts, a house plagued by a sickness so deep it takes root in the walls. batei midrash sit empty, hollow...
vayikra
they call to one another, in love, with affection. here i am, take me, take all of me. every conversation, every act of support, is a...
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Faith in the Fire
Poetic Writings on the Eish Kodesh
this is an attempt to appreciate, to integrate and to internalize the torah of rabbi kalonymus kalman shapiro. in the eish kodesh, rabbi shapiro writes of faith and hope from inside of the warsaw ghetto. each week, in response to his divrei torah on the weekly parsha, i'll offer my own words, a humble attempt to lift up the poetry within his torah.
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