Amidah Offering: This Day
The fourth blessing in the Shabbat Amidah speaks about the “holiness of this day.” Is Shabbat’s holiness unique, is it innate, what role do we play in it, how does it change us? How do we understand the day: as a “sign,” as emptiness and fullness, as an invitation into God’s own pleasure? This collaborative offering of liturgy, poetry, and art explores some of what this blessing means to us. We hope it will open up these words of prayer in new ways also for 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
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 offering features work by Trisha Arlin, R. Rachel Barenblat, Joanne Fink, R. Sonja Keren Pilz, Steve Silbert, and R. David Zaslow.
Download the PDF:
Bayit – Liturgical Arts – Kedushat HaYom [pdf]
Preview the google slides:
The slides are also here on google drive:
Bayit – Kedushat Hayom
(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.)
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.
