(4/4) Includes work by Trisha Arlin, @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social , Mike Cockrill Sherrill Kratenstein Cropper, R. Hannah Dresner, R. Sonja Keren Pilz, and R. David Zaslow. Find it here: yourbayit.org/acceptable/

(3/) This offering is like the three steps back we take upon concluding our prayer. As we back away from that period of holy encounter, how might we find ourselves changed?

(2/) These closing blessings aren’t technically part of the Amidah, but they are part of our experience of praying the Amidah. Many people begin the recitation of the Amidah by taking three steps forward to enter the prayer and enter the divine Presence.

Available here as a recording, a PDF, and google slides. Wit thanks to @opensiddur.bsky.social for sharing the prayer of mothers in the first place, and for the font that allows typing trope!

A liturgical setting that links the story of Hannah from 1 Samuel (often chanted on the first day of Rosh Hashanah) with the “Prayer of Mothers for Life and Peace” by Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum and Sheikha Ibtisam Maḥameed, set in the Haftarah trope of prophesy.

Includes work by @trishaarlin3000.bsky.social, @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social , Mike Cockrill, R. Sonja Keren Pilz PhD, Steve Silbert, and R. David Zaslow.
Find it here: yourbayit.org/peace/

How can we ask for something we may not even wholly understand? This offering arises out of those questions and more. We hope it speaks to you, and we hope it helps you to pray some of what’s on your heart.

The closing blessing of the Amidah asks for shalom: peace, wholeness, completion. What does this prayer mean to us today? What does it ask of God – and of us? What does it mean to ask for peace in a time of tumult and injustice?

"...Wisdom, which is housed in humility, perpetually motivates us to continue advancing the cause of goodness as we remind the wise child 'אֵין מַפְטִירִין אַחַר הַפֶּסַח – don’t stop [fighting for the liberation of all people] after Passover is over.'..."

Read the whole thing here: yourbayit.org/wisdom/