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Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfield, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Rabbi Tamar Elad Applebaum wrote this a month after Oct 7 

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Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfield, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Rabbi Tamar Elad Applebaum wrote this a month after Oct 7 

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May it be your will, our God and God of our ancestors, to heal our broken hearts.

For the babies, children, women and men, for the elderly, for the Holocaust survivors, for all those who were murdered with cold cruelty in their houses and in their fields. For the hospitals filled with wounded. For the hundreds of thousands of frightened refugees. For the kidnapped of every nationality-Jewish, Arab, Bedouin, Thai, Nepali-for all the innocent, taken without warning. For Israel's soldiers who have courageously gone to fight a war they did not want. For the Arabs and Jews whose shared hope for peace has itself been kidnapped by the forces of hate. For Jews all around the world, children, students, and communities, who are now fearing for their lives. For the bitter hatred of Israel that has burst forth around the world, with the assault of terror on the human conscience.

Please God, give us the strength not to be broken. Help us distinguish between darkness and light, between despair and hope, between terror and defense. Give us strength to uproot what is evil and protect the good. Give us the strength to stand steadfast, as one, from every religion and nation, in our refusal to let terror take over heart and conscience. May we never let terror trample the hope we share as Jews, as Israelis, as human beings, to be lovers of life, peace, and blessing.

Please God, we do not know what awaits our world and we lift our pleas to you. May it be your will to lead us toward peace, to guide our steps toward peace, to show us the path toward peace, to enable us to reach our destination to life, to joy, and to peace. May you return all of the soldiers and kidnapped of Israel safely home to us, to a life of peace.

Save us from every enemy, predator, and evildoer we may encounter on our path, and from every form of chaos, both physical and moral, that might enter our world. Grant us courage and compassion in your eyes and in the eyes of all who see us. For you are the one who hears our prayers and our pleas. Blessed are You, who hears prayer.

May God bless you and keep you.
May the light of God's face shine on you and be gracious to you.
May God's face be lifted toward you and grant you peace.

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A Prayer for the Journey, for Jewish Communities Around the World | Hebrew College

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A Shabbat blessing for Israel and for Gaza

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A Shabbat blessing for Israel and for Gaza

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by Rabbi Sue Fendrick

May you somehow feel blessing piercing through

May protection find you, whether or not those in charge are keeping you safe

May you surprise yourself by seeing God’s face occasionally shining through to you on the face of the other

May you feel the startling, comforting grace of God’s presence in the most unlikely times

May your head, bowed in sadness fear despair anger, be lifted up to see a different future

May you envision yourself as a possible agent of an impossible peace worth fighting for.

May you live

May you be and see God’s image

May the unthinkable never be thinkable

May the impossible become possible

Ken yehi ratzon. May it be so.

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מן המצר קראתי יה, ענני במרחב יה. 

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מן המצר קראתי יה, ענני במרחב יה. 

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For 40 years, during tough times, this springs out of my mouth spontaneously -

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- it means I have lived and conquered to this moment

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Lilith Magazine on Instagram: “Desperately reaching for words to anchor us, we turned back to “The Prayer of the Mothers for Life and Peace,” written by Rabbi Tamar Elad Applebaum and Sheikha Ibtisam Maḥameed. Originally quoted by Sharon Brous in May 2021, its cry to God of life reminds us that violence is not inevitable. Find the full piece at the link in our bio.”

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2,047 likes, 16 comments - lilithmagazine on October 12, 2023: “Desperately reaching for words to anchor us, we turned back to “The Prayer of the Mothers for L...”

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My Impossible Prayer - Rabbi Sarah Mulhern

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My Impossible Prayer - Rabbi Sarah Mulhern

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Tzadik Katamar, especally the line, "Bifroach r'shayim k'mo eisev vayatzitzu kol poalei ah-ven, l'hish'amdam adei ad"

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Tzadik Katamar, especally the line, "Bifroach r'shayim k'mo eisev vayatzitzu kol poalei ah-ven, l'hish'amdam adei ad"

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Ever since I was a little girl this line has given me strength to keep going. Walking out in nature, seeing the grass(even in winter) and noticing the first signs of spring(now) are a potent reminder of the Tzadik Katamar promise.

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like Batya Levine's Tu B'Shvat nigun, Leonard Sher's "Heal us now", Joey Weisenberg's "Mima'amakim"

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Dr. Ruchama Weiss - I Want To Weep - October 8

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Dr. Ruchama Weiss - I Want To Weep - October 8

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I want to weep but then I remember

That there’s a long line now for weeping

(In fairness and to my great fortune) I’m off the list

Of those allowed

Tears.

At moments like this, when life empties itself out of all

Content

Only one word has meaning:

Empty.

Grandmothers taken prisoner. Babies slaughtered.

For some reason I’m reminded of Bialik

I have no right

To weep.

אני רוצה לבכות אבל זוכרת

שיש עכשיו תור ארוך לבכי

(ובצדק ולמזלי) אני מחוץ לרשימות

של מי שמותר לה

דמעות.

רגעים כאלה כשהחיים מתרוקנים מכל

תוכן

יש משמעות רק למילה אחת

ריק

סבתות נלקחות בשבי. תינוקות נטבחים

משום מה אני נזכרת בביאליק

אין לי זכות

לבכות

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Prayer in this Time of War in Israel and Palestine - Ritualwell

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"May love flow from our broken hearts, and may their yearning return us to our humanity."

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My son is going through treatment for cancer, and this is helping me stay afloat. (If you want to add him to your tefillot, his name is Shabtai Tzur ben Ita Rachel)

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1- “Esso Einai” ( for G- transcendent)

2. & a German childhood prayer “ I am small my heart is within - let no one dwell there but G-d alone” (G-d immanent)

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https://youtu.be/CKIcvrMm8S8?si=t-QoTHElah2ypSCZ

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there have been times when i have sung any number of prayer songs to myself. 

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there have been times when i have sung any number of prayer songs to myself. 

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Carlebach version of Esa Einai is a fave. Also the currently popular yonatan razal v'hi she-amda...i find myself singing that a lot these days.

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In Judaism, Chesed. In Buddhism Metta,

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(though a lot of men are in that list too, and women whose posts touch on prayer, but aren't themselves prayers).

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"When will You lie us down in peace? When will these hakafot of violence end?"

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There's some gorgeous stuff in All This Heartbreak, the collaborative offering from Bayit: Building Jewish's liturgical arts working group, written in response to 10/7: https://yourbayit.org/heartbreak/ -- seven women contributed our work to that collab and what we co-created continues to move me.

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There's some gorgeous stuff in All This Heartbreak, the collaborative offering from Bayit: Building Jewish's liturgical arts working group, written in response to 10/7: https://yourbayit.org/heartbreak/ -- seven women contributed our work to that collab and what we co-created continues to move me.

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https://yourbayit.org/heartbreak/

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Amazon is Sold Out of Sackcloth - Rabbi Jen Gubitz

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Amazon is Sold Out of Sackcloth - Rabbi Jen Gubitz

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I'm sitting on Noah's ark.
He let me board early.
After the animals come on safely,
I bring my loved ones
into the rooms of my heart
as the sky pours out her tears.

Evan is sitting shiva.
Rachael tells me her body is in Kishinev.
Daniel is feeling alone in this storm.
Jodie is searching for words, she finds songs to briefly calm her soul.
Abbey's great aunt, her cousins are held hostage.
We ordered our sackcloth on Amazon,
But they've run out.

From the River to the Sea, a cousin posts on Instagram.
A middle school friend
who once brought me to Easter services with liturgy blaming Jews for Jesus' death
messages me about collective punishment.
Neil from high school emails me after 20 years to tell me he is thinking of me.
Joe from our childhood West Sherwood Terrace texts me about his grief.

My beloved, born of the land,
first needs quiet, to process, to worry.
His cousins are called up.
They are my cousins, too, now.
We love you, I message them repeatedly,
as we cancel our El Al flights for November.

What about the kids in war, my nieces ask?
They hide, the eldest says.
They hide behind their mommies, the youngest agrees.
I call my dad crying.
I cry dancing the Horah at Sasha's wedding.
I cry for Abbey's Carmela and Noya.
I cry because I do not understand war
and I do not understand hurting children.

I cannot sleep on this ark.
I should not sleep on this ark.
As if the last night of summer camp,
I am sitting shmira.
The WiFi is too strong and I am up late each night.
Refresh, refresh, refresh.
I am keeping watch to make sure everyone is safe.
I am sitting shmira -
Guarding the memories of the dead
until they are returned
to their families embrace.

You can't sit shmira for all of them alone,
my sister tells me.
You have to share the burden.

So, please come on board this ark with me,
There is only one skylight
And it feels so dark.

Tags: feminist poetry, grief, jewish poetry, noah's ark, River to the Sea, shiva, war

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I am sitting shmira - / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.

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Here is a composite of prayers I’ve written since 10/7.

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Here is a composite of prayers I’ve written since 10/7.

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I think this one speaks the most to where I am in this moment:

https://ritualwell.org/ritual/a-prayer-for-sheltering-light/

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This piece is part of an ongo­ing series that we are shar­ing from Israeli authors and authors in Israe

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There are more on Ritualwell, including Bring Them Home: A Song/Prayer

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There are more on Ritualwell, including Bring Them Home: A Song/Prayer

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by Cantor Jennifer Duretz Peled https://ritualwell.org/ritual/bring-them-home-a-song-prayer/

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Prayer for the Well-being of the IDF - Rabbi Aderet Drucker

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Prayer for the Well-being of the IDF - Rabbi Aderet Drucker

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Prayer for the Well-being of the Israel Defense Forces

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Shira Taylor Gura wrote this simple, beautiful, powerful prayer after October 7th.

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Shira Taylor Gura wrote this simple, beautiful, powerful prayer after October 7th.

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Listen to Bring Them Home on Spotify. Shira Gura · Single · 2023 · 1 songs.

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I wrote this prayer in consultation with Sarah Yehudit Schneider after completing learning her book, You are What You Hate: A Spiritually Productive Approach to Enemies. I taught some takeaways from that book in a small class called "Align the Light" shortly after October 7. If anyone would like to view a recording of the class, please let me know. - Evonne Marzouk

Hashem, please,
May it be that all Jewish souls, no matter where we stand, or what we face, see and return and come closer to your Light.
And may we integrate Your Light so deeply into our heart, bones, cells and spaces, thought, speech and deed, that we all together, in massive teshuva [return], become the Light – the Light to the nations which is our truth, our calling and our destiny. And may that Light shine out into the world and bring redemption for all.
And may our enemies too return to the Light and do teshuva to come closer to You. May the good in them be strengthened (so that they can do us no harm). And if there are any parts of our souls that are lost, broken, wounded, with our enemies, may they return to us, healed.
May evil disappear from the world and may we all see Your good and Your redemption, speedily in our days.

[You can see more of my writings and be in touch at www.evonnemarzouk.com]

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the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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הושע נא | Hosha-na [after the war begun on Shemini Atseret 5784], by Rabbi Annie Lewis (10 October 2023) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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This litany of Hoshana’ot was written by Rabbi Annie Lewis. Hebrew translation by Shoshana Michael Zucker. . . .

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I believe that this prayer in accessible language (and with communications symbols) was written by Marianella Kreiman: 

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I believe that this prayer in accessible language (and with communications symbols) was written by Marianella Kreiman: 

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Prayer after the massacres on Shemini Atseret 5784 by Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed

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Prayer after the massacres on Shemini Atseret 5784 by Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed

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This is a pull quote from an op-ed, if that counts. (Graphics Carmit Ben Shimol). 

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This is a pull quote from an op-ed, if that counts. (Graphics Carmit Ben Shimol). 

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many more on social media, see for example https://www.facebook.com/amoshko

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many more on social media, see for example https://www.facebook.com/amoshko

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Rabbi Prof. Dalia Marx at HUC-Jerusalem was collecting prayer texts (not only by women), so she might also be able to help.

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Rabbi Prof. Dalia Marx at HUC-Jerusalem was collecting prayer texts (not only by women), so she might also be able to help.

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A Prayer for Truth and Peace:

https://ritualwell.org/ritual/a-prayer-for-truth-and-peace/

It was an honor to share it with you all.

-Evonne Marzouk

You can see more of my writings at www.evonnemarzouk.com

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A Prayer for Truth and Peace - Ritualwell

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"Please grant us clarity and wisdom and heal our bodies, minds and hearts, / for we are filled with confusion and suffering."

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To the dreamers

with crushed spirits now

in the face of the world’s pain:

I see you.

https://ritualwell.org/ritual/a-blessing-for-dreamers-2024/

Written after a trip to Israel in December 2023.

[You can see more of my writings at www.evonnemarzouk.com]

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A Blessing for Dreamers (2024) - Ritualwell

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"Keep faith / with the brightness / of all things good..."

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I can't remember where I learned that we should pray daily for humility. This is a prayer I say often.

May it be Your will, Hashem, my G-d and G-d of my forefathers, that I develop the attribute of anava [humility], of knowing my place in Your world, and that I serve you in holiness, truth, righteousness, blessing, success, salvation, faith and peace, health and blessing and emunah [faith] to a ripe old age - Please Hashem, in Your abundant compassion, may this be Your will.

-Evonne Marzouk

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SVIVAH Prayers SCREEN SHARES - 2.29.24.pdf