Reading today "What Non-Religious People Can Learn from Traditional Prayer: Finding Meaning Without Belief" ~ www.wholelifechallenge.com/what-non-rel....

Includes this short, daily, #secular practice ~

Starting a new translation of Bialik's poem welcoming shabbat ~ here is the first stanza...

Pleased to see that 'Positive Judaism' teachings (which you can read about here ~ positive-judaism.org/test-post-3-2/) include recognition of a daily, #non-theistic #prayer of gratitude:

Reading about poet and liturgist Marcia Falk, and the gradual development of a newly traditional style of Jewish blessing ~ lilith.org/articles/an-...

Poet Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) wrote in #Hebrew & #Yiddish. Some poems feel like #non-theistic prayers ~ for example, Take Me Under Your Wing (הַכְנִיסִינִי תַּחַת כְּנָפֵךְ). A poem from 1905 of seeking comfort, the full Hebrew text and translation by Ruth Nevo are here ~ opensiddur.org/prayers/soli...

With gratitude to two teachers (the Dalai Lama and Dr Herbert Levine), here is a newly traditional 'Modeh Ani' morning blessing for beginning the new day ~

Looking for background on Rabbi Sherwin Wine's writing of a non-theistic version of the Kaddish (mourners') prayer ~ guessing it was in the 1960s.

While I am searching, here is the full text ~ shj.org/wp-content/u...