September 21, 2017
This Rosh Hashanah, We Throw the Door Open
To go home, leave crumbs. When the wood circles you back here instead, let the lost and the impossible ripen in you, ripen and go. “What is Growing […]
October 3, 2016
“You Want it Darker”: On Rosh Hashanah & New Beginnings
Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name Vilified, crucified, in the human frame A million candles burning for the love that never came You want it darker We kill […]
September 13, 2015
On Books and Silence: Why I Cannot Pray on Rosh Hashanah
“Where are you?” “In what I say.” “What is your truth?” “What lacerates me.” “And your salvation?” “Forgetting what I said.” –“At the Threshold of the Book,” Edmond Jabès […]