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Handmade cream crocheted baby booties and a plush bunny on a soft blue-and-white blanket beside a sunlit window, beside the text of a prayer while awaiting a grandchild's birth.

Handmade cream crocheted baby booties and a plush bunny on a soft blue-and-white blanket beside a sunlit window, beside the text of a prayer while awaiting a grandchild's birth.

A Prayer While Awaiting the Birth of a Grandchild

A prayer for grandparents-to-be, offered while waiting for news of a birth: strength for the parents, a safe arrival for the baby, and joy in the next message.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Oct 81 min read

A gravestone surrounded by white lilies in a cemetery at sunset, with the poem title "Today I Go to the Funeral to Bury the Mother I Love" by Rabbi Paul Kipnes

A gravestone surrounded by white lilies in a cemetery at sunset, with the poem title "Today I Go to the Funeral to Bury the Mother I Love" by Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Today I Go to the Funeral to Bury the Mother I Love

I wrote this the day she buried her mother, trying to hold prayer and grief together as she recited the first Kaddish for her.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Sep 51 min read

A Prayer for the Secular New Year

A Prayer for the Secular New Year

A Prayer for the Secular New Year

Source of beginnings, Teach us to treasure time: To taste the sweetness of its swift seconds, To seek truth amidst its trials, To trust...

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Feb 9, 20251 min read

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