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Post by hollygail on Jul 12, 2024 7:11:26 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by hollygail on Jul 12, 2024 7:17:34 GMT -5
A coupla samples...
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Shabbat Poem
by Rabbi Tova Leibovic- Douglas
Shabbat
Shabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work. Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends.
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We are tired of the
overthinking,
overworking,
overproducing,
overdoing.
We are longing to be.
To feel that being > doing
Once a week in this world we get
A writ of divorce. Traditionally, only a man can grant his wife a get. Liberal Jews have amended this tradition, making divorce more egalitarian.
to
Imagine
Imagine a world of being
We ache for you
to look for the light
to be the light
Shabbat ~
Shabbat Shalom
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velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/files/poemsforprayer-1.pdf
Contemporary Poems Illuminating Our Prayer
Shabbat Morning, 26 Tevet / January 21
Congregation Beth Israel
An opening poem
Here Today
G-d is here
today. She is
a spectacular G-d,
all good company
and magnificence.
She sings, barks,
and is an able contortionist. (She
learned this in India.)
She does splits
when you don't
expect them.
She has a big vocabulary.
She is part Jewish
part Buddhist
part wind.
She plays excellent piano,
speaks Urdu, breathes
deeply, and does
the sun salute each day.
This G-d knows the words
to many songs. She bakes
bread, and often makes
strawberry shortcake.
She turns these small mountains
so green you want to eat them
an then
she just hands you
a long light yellow porch
where you can sit
and sit and sit
to watch her move
so slowly you would miss her
if you weren't watching closely.
—Esther Cohen, from Shul
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Gut Shabbes / Shabbat Shalom, chaverot.
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Post by lee058 on Jul 12, 2024 9:19:00 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.
Sorry I missed posting for a couple of days; I intend to do the leads starting on Sunday, although it may be a challenge. DH is having hip surgery on Monday, and DS and I will have a lot to do.
I'm somewhat nervous about this, but have talked with DS, and hope we are up to it!!
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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