Place yourself : words of prayer & intention / by Trisha Arlin ; art by Mike Cockrill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arlin, Trisha, author.

Contributor:

Cockrill, Mike, artist.

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish religious poetry, American.

Physical Description:

xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : Dimus Parrhesia Press, [2019]

Summary:

"PLACE YOURSELF, by Trisha Arlin, with a Foreword by Rabbi Jill Hammer and original artwork by Mike Cockrill, is a book of original prayer, kavannot and liturgical poems. Written in clear language that is meant to be understood in real time as part of a service or ritual event, or to share personal spiritual explorations, Arlin's work is fresh, challenging, useful and very modern"--Publisher's website

Contents:

Foreword / Rabbi Jill Hammer

Petiḥah/The Opening

Place Yourself

1. Shabbat. If I let it

Instead Of: A Shabbat Prayer for Peace

A Prayer for Stopping

A Shabbat Amidah

Havdallah: A Prayer for Holy Separation

2. The Service. Modeh Ani: I Give Thanks

The Color of Light: Putting On the Tallit

Elohai Neshamah: Your Pure Soul

A Verb Is a Noun

Yishtabaḥ: Praise

Ḥatsi Kaddish: Delusions of Reference and Separation

Barkhu: Interesting Experiments

A Yotser Ohr Kavvanah: In This Light You See Light

Birkat Yotser

Ahavah Rabah: The Foundation of Love

Fringes: Kavvanah Before the Sh'ma

Emet: Truth

Established and Otherwise

Weekday Amidah Guided Meditation

Taḥanun: The Rock at the Gate at the Entrance to Heaven

Kaddish Shalem: Holy Wholeness

Aleinu: There Is No Other

Kaddish Yatom: A Mourner's Kaddish

Ma'ariv: We Give Thanks for the Setting Sun

3. Rosh HaShanah LaBehemah. A Blessing for the Bugs

My Friend, My Captive (A Ritual for Our Pets)

Meat and Feathers: We Confess

4. High Holy Days. Elul Seliḥot: Forgive You? ; Return

Rosh HaShanah. The Torah Cover Goes Wow ; Kesher v'Gesher ; Hinei, Ayeka, Hineni ; Place Yourself: An Unetaneh Tokef ; A Prayer for Praying Before Blowing the Shofar ; Clean Dirt: A Prayer for Tashlikh

Yom Kippur: All Our Grudges: An Alternative Kol Nidre ; I Am in Exile: A Prayer for Kol Nidre ; A List of My Sins ; For the Sins of Laziness & Omission ; Inside the Holy of Holies ; Avodah Guided Meditation ; Yom Kippur Havdallah

Sukkot. Stars in the Sky

Simḥat Torah. We Dance Around the Shul

5. The Rest of the Year. Rosh Ḥodesh: We Give Thanks for the Moon

Ḥanukkah: I'm Over the Maccabees

Winter: Tilt: A Prayer for the Winter Solstice

Tu BiShvat: The Days Grow Longer

Rosh Ḥodesh Sh'vat

Purim: Vashti Says No (Megillat Esther ch.l) ; They See (Megillat Esther ch. 5)

Pesaḥ. Roḥtsa: A Kavvanah for Washing Our Hands a Second Time ; Drink the Four Cups of Wine ; The Afflicted Matzah ; Four Children, Five Rabbis ; Plagues Are Not Cute ; Two Cups: Elijah and Miriam ; The Hillel Sandwich ; Blessing After Eating the Seder Meal ; Malkhut: A Kavvanah for Counting the Omer

Shavuot: Standing at Sinai

Yom HaShoah: I Was Afraid

Summer. The Earth Prays: The Summer Solstice ; Home: A Prayer for This Country on July 4th

Tisha b'Av: For Lost Homes on Tisha b'Av

6. Healing & Loss. Healing: A Prayer for Compassion ; Heal us ; Gifts ; Be Safe ; For Those Who Resist

Loss. I Am So Blessed by My Annoying Friends ; Each Loss Breaks a Pattern: A Shiva Prayer ; A Blessing for Survivors ; A Yizkor Kavvanah for the Ambivalent

7. Sustenance. A Motsi for Sustainability

A Birkat Hamazon (Blessing After a Meal)

A Prayer for Not Having

A Prayer for the Levites: Community-Worker Contract

A Blessing for Putting Up a Mezuzah

A Blessing for When Good Things Happen

Ḥatimah/The Seal

We Must Pray & We Must Do

Afterword / Trisha Arlin.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780359229932

035922993X

OCLC:

1129585583