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Tag Archives: High Holidays
Blowing the Jazz Shofar
The trumpet I heard wail last night seemed to me like the shofar manquée, the missing shofar. Because Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, we don’t blow shofar. Thankfully Brandon Woody, the Blue Note jazz musician from Baltimore, stepped into the … Continue reading
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Shanah Tovah
The breath scent of mother fig under the chuppah of life time got sucked up into a late-summer straw fully enjoyed, fortunately, but fast fast fast leaving us reeling – never ready, breathless standing under canopies of scarlet leaves, in … Continue reading
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All the Days of Awe
The Days of Awe open on Rosh Hashanah and close on Yom Kippur. When my birthday falls on Rosh Hashanah, it gets lost in the birthday of the world; when it falls on Yom Kippur, celebrations turn sober and thin. … Continue reading
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Blasting Complacency
When the same word floats up from the most disparate-seeming characters. My yoga teacher. My poetry mentor. A black hat rabbi. The list would be disparate enough without Baudelaire – but the dark prince poet was at the forefront in demanding … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction to routine, Attention; mindfulness; complacency, High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, shofar
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