Amidah Offering: Gratitude / Hoda’ah
“We are grateful before You.” Is gratitude innate? Is it part of who we are? What if we don’t feel grateful? What if we can’t feel grateful? What forms does our gratitude take? What are the challenges of gratitude? How might we grow in gratitude? What about when gratitude is bittersweet? Here are some of our answers to these questions. We hope they speak to you.
Previous offerings in this series:
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0 – Open / Adonai S’fatai
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1 – Ancestors / Avot v’Imahot
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2 – All This Power / Gevurot
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3 – Holy / Kedusha
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4 – This Day / Kedushat HaYom
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5 –Service / Avodah
Download the PDF:
Bayit – Amidah – Gratitude [pdf]
Preview the google slides:
The slides are also here on google drive:
Bayit – Amidah – Gratitude
(The above link will prompt you to make your own copy of the slides, which you can then integrate with other digital offerings as you wish.)
How to use this offering: Pray these in community or on your own. Add pages from the PDF to photocopied handouts, or add slides from the slide deck to services. Make one of the slides the desktop background on your computer, or use some of the art as wallpaper for your phone. Share the prayer-poems with others. Write your own prayer-poem in response, and pray that. (Or use them in some other way — and tell us what works for you.) In short: we hope you’ll use these in whatever way will best enable these words and images to speak to and for your heart.
This collection features work by Trisha Arlin, R. Rachel Barenblat, Joanne Fink, R. Sonja Keren Pilz, Steve Silbert, and R. David Zaslow. Find our bios on the Builder Biographies page.
