The Akedah Cycle: a sermon in poetry for the second day of Rosh Hashanah In years past, our visiting cantorial soloist has offered a "sermon in song" on the second morning of Rosh Hashanah. This year, I'm doing something along the same lines, but in my own home genre: I'm ...

This isn't recent but I think it stands up: the #Akedah cycle, a series of 10 poems rooted in this week's #parsha and classical midrash thereupon.

(Also available in #70faces, my first collection of poetry, Phoenicia 2011.)

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An image of a mobius strip, accompanied by this poem. Mobius by Rachel Barenblat For Simchat Torah I want to write the Torah on a mobius strip of parchment so that the very last lines (never again will there arise, arpeggio of signs and wonders stout strength and subtle teaching) would lead seamlessly to the beginning of heavens and earth, the waters all wild and waste, and God hovering over the face of creation like a mother bird. This is the strong sinew that stitches our years together: that we never have to bear the heartbreak of the story ending each year the words are the same but something in us is different on a mobius strip of parchment I want to write the Torah

In honor of #SimchatTorah, which is coming soon, this #poem from #70Faces (Phoenicia, 2011 www.phoeniciapublishing.com/70-faces-tor...)

The Akedah Cycle: a sermon in poetry for the second day of Rosh Hashanah In years past, our visiting cantorial soloist has offered a "sermon in song" on the second morning of Rosh Hashanah. This year, I'm doing something along the same lines, but in my own home genre: I'm ...

I'll share one of mine - I wrote this cycle of poetry after doing some deep study of midrash on the akedah, back in -- wow -- 2010. Was in rab school then, but not yet a rabbi. This appears also in #70Faces, my first collection of poems from Phoenicia.

velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/09...