Tag Archives: Rosh Hashanah

Blowing the Jazz Shofar

Posted on September 11, 2026 by jillbpearlman

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

Posted on October 2, 2024 by jillbpearlman

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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Blasting Complacency

Posted on September 18, 2023 by jillbpearlman

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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The Closing Rituals of Summer

Posted on September 5, 2021 by jillbpearlman

We did it, we celebrated summer, in spite of it all.  We fulfilled the ritual, as we had to; the body needs its sense of itself, to immerse in water and shifting light and in joy.  It needs to entertain … Continue reading →

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