A set of poems and thoughts written by some of Hevria's writers in reaction to the terror attack that took five lives in a Jerusalem synagogue today.
A poem:
"You pray for silkworms and butterflies.
Dance, and your twisting wrists chafe against shackles.
Sing, and grey moths escape your open throat."
I need you for my starry-eyed revolution, my sexy insurrection.
I am talking about a desirous uprising.
Who will join my love-army of Cosmic Carrots?
I wish people would raise their children as if they were miracles. Superheroes. Creators. Because those kids. . .they’d revere the power of the pen.
Enjoy this playlist inspired by the dream theme in this week’s Torah portion Vayeitzei. I hope it encourages you (and me) to create conscious opportunities to dream our important dreams, and to wake with the all the stuff we need to build them in this world.
It feels strange to start my writing on Hevria by admitting I'm speechless. But they wouldn't let me publish a niggun.
In honor of her trip to Israel, and in her continued hopes of "never being jaded," Elizabeth shares her experience of spiritual fulfillment while sampling dried figs.
Chaya Lester writes a poem to the people of Paris, and to the world, to remind them that we are all in this fight together.
Chaya Lester tells it like it is from the other side of the mechitza. A skirt on the outskirts of another ritual act.