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Reflecting on her experience of Zooming into the three separate, concurrent celebrations of young women celebrating becoming bat mitzvah, Dr. Sarah Benor uses the occasion to find the less hidden blessings of technology and cacophony. Following the service in a liturgical round allows for an unexpected abundance of blessings.
In liturgy, ancient formulae intersect with current yearnings. These months have seen an outpouring of Jewish liturgical creativity. An expert in both ancient and modern expressions of Jewish liturgy, Rabbi Dalia Marx, Ph.D. offers an initial reading of some prayers still hot off the press. Will these prayers and others created in this time find their way into the lexicon of Jewish devotion?
In this essay Adriane Leveen, Ph.D., includes both analysis of Biblical themes and an account of reading ancient texts with contemporary students, kept apart yet brought together. Considered on these two levels, prophetic voices from antiquity resonate with especial force.
