A poem by Lisa Tremback

A poem by Lisa Tremback

A poem from Lisa Tremback.

A new (year's) poem from Lisa Tremback.

A new poem from Lisa Tremback.

A new poem from Lisa Tremback.

We're in this life, in this deal/we're meant to make it through.

A timely piece of poetry about our world today.

Lord! We have battled our dybbuks!

A new poem from Lisa Tremback.

A new poem from Lisa Tremback

I wrote this piece right after Yom Kippur. I don't ever have visions, this was a first.

A poetic tribute to Yom Kippur.

A new poem.

In this workshop, we will discuss our feelings about teshuvah, look at excerpts from our holy books, read "teshuvah poems" and then write our own poetry in a safe environment.

As we learn in the last part of the Talmud tractate Moed Katan, may the time come when ‘death is swallowed up forever.’

"Through closed eyes/in a meditative/state/I hear the bird."

Henry Rasof and Ed Kass will lead a Teshuvah Poetry Workshop this Thursday, August 20th at Congregation Nevei Kodesh.

Here is another Nishmat poem, suitable for Shabbat morning. It can go after the Nishmat prayer. Now, take a deep breath and remember the connection between breath, life, and soul (soul = neshama--same root as nishmat, you probably know).

On Tishah b'Av we lament the destruction of the two Temples, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, other Jewish national tragedies, and, if we wish, our own sorrows and tragedies. On this day we recite elegies and dirges called kinot, as we and our ancestors have done for thousands of years, in our own ritual way of expressing the deep grief common to all people in all cultures.