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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Another one of my contributions to From the Depths, this year's offering of new collaboratively-created liturgy for #Pesach. Find the whole collection (as slides and as a PDF) at yourbayit.org/depths/

Image: dawn over the desert. "A Psalm 118 for Now."

"From the depths I call to You--"
From the tight straits, from the Narrow Place
from the weary grind of the terrible news...

But that's not the end of the psalm.
The heart's cry is just the beginning.
Darkness comes before the dawn.

"You answer me with Your expansiveness!"
When we cry out, You lift us up
like mourners rising from life's ashes.

That we're still here is a miracle.
Gladden our hearts. Make us bloom
like meadows of wildflowers in the spring.

R. Rachel Barenblat