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class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to This Moment<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our knowing<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   remembering that we know<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our rhythms<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our drums<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to sleep in the middle of the night<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our deepest desires<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   our shared loves<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   our clear visions<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our bodies<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   to our breath<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   to breathing easily<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to knowing<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   how beautiful we are<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to ourselves<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to each other<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our good questions<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   our bare feet<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   our brilliant minds<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   our singing voices<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to falling in love<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   with ourselves<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">     and each other<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our Shrines<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   and to our shrine-keeping<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to our places of peacemaking<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us to trusting each other<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   and ourselves<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   turn us<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">     and we will dance and be held<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> and behold that we are whole<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> and be in harmony with You<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Return us<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   keep turning us<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> for everything is within us<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> for Torah will keep coming out of us<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> for sweetness is<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">   within us<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <br/> <div class="MsoNormal"> and longs to return to You<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div></p> </div> <p class="post-footer">posted by Ilana | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://vitaminsee.blogspot.com/2014/04/hashiveinu.html" title="permanent link">12:53 PM</a> | <a class="comment-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://vitaminsee.blogspot.com/2014/04/hashiveinu.html#comments">0 comments</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7427602&postID=1573460745902587399" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span> </p> </div>     <div class="post"><a name="6391564141654039618"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> how to have good sex </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p><div style="clear:both;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 1</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> meet your first love</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> in a class on the feminist reconstruction</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> of hassidut</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> he is a year younger than you</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> wears a bandana instead of a kippa</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and he likes you</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> be thrilled</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and terrified </div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> write poems that make you blush</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> don’t share them with anyone</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> visit him at his parents’ house</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> don’t sleep in his bed</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> don’t kiss him</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> years later</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> regret it</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> try to think about how to do teshuva</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> for not kissing him</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 2</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> repeat, with some variation</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> every few years</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> until you are writing poetry that is God</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 3</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> meanwhile, be a maiden</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> be</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> a maiden</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 4</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> somehow find in you</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> the courage</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> to share the blushing sequence with small groups</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> of people you trust</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> look up and they are blushing too</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and smiling</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 5</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> listen to</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and be nourished by:</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> the indigo girls</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> ani difranco</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> catie curtis</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> etc</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and wonder,</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> are there any powerful, centered women</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> who have sex with men?</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> be grateful for dar williams</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 6</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> oh, and stop watching TV</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 7</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> develop a relationship with eshes chayil</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and the song of songs</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 8</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> start calling everyone <i>honey</i> and <i>dear</i></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> especially yourself</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 9</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> don’t lose any weight</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> don’t shave (unless you want to shave)</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> give away clothes that are shaped like pillowcases</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 10</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> arrive at the lake</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> that has just frozen again</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> in Falls Village in March</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and remember August</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and marvel and</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> tell it what you are thinking:</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> “I</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> was <i>naked</i></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> in you!”</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and hear yourself say it</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> and smile</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 11</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> find someone</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> that you might want to be naked with</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> get invited to seder</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> talk about parsley</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> think about parsley</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> while</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> talking about parsley</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> 12</div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <br/></div> <br/> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> forget that you wrote this poem<br/> <br/> <br/> *<br/> <br/> <br/> <div style="text-align: left;"> <i>Commentary: I wrote this poem over several years, while I was in the Kohenet training program. There was a time that each man I was interested in or involved with warranted a new stanza or a revision; eventually, the poem arrived at this form. I invite readers to write their own compositions with the same title.</i></div> </div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div></p> </div> <p class="post-footer">posted by Ilana | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://vitaminsee.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-have-good-sex.html" title="permanent link">12:50 PM</a> | <a class="comment-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://vitaminsee.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-have-good-sex.html#comments">1 comments</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7427602&postID=6391564141654039618" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Sunday, April 06, 2014</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="742222266882610004"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Statistics </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p><div style="clear:both;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 in 5 Jewish women in this country, and 1 in 8 Jewish men, is Facebook friends with a Kohenet.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Every 18 seconds, a Jewish woman reads a psalm, somewhere in the world.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> At this moment, twenty people are listening to an album by Taya Shere;</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">     100,000 people are dancing barefoot;</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">          20,000 people are taking naps in hammocks;</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">               and 5,000 women are delighting in their bodies, connecting intimately with their lovers.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 10,000 people are writing thank-you notes in Hebrew;</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">     five women are chanting from the Torah for the first time;</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">               and 100 pairs are studying feminist midrash in hevruta.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Last Shabbat, 8,000 children heard men talking about God/dess in the feminine, from the bimah.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> At this moment, 2,000 women and 84 men are crocheting colorful kippot while sitting in class, in meetings, or on busses;</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">     and 150 fetuses are inside of women who are studying Talmud.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 4 out of 5 Jewish children, and 1 out of 3 non-Jewish children, has been to a Tu Bish'vat seder.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> By the time he has reached the age of bar mitzvah, one in six boys has made challah with his father.</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the time that it took you to read this, a Jewish feminist has created another name for the Divine.</span></span></div> </div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div></p> </div> <p class="post-footer">posted by Ilana | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://vitaminsee.blogspot.com/2014/04/statistics.html" title="permanent link">2:18 PM</a> | <a class="comment-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://vitaminsee.blogspot.com/2014/04/statistics.html#comments">0 comments</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7427602&postID=742222266882610004" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, March 19, 2014</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="4584049392446848739"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Keter (Crown) </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Prompted by my Hebrew school teaching and some personal practice, I have been connecting to the idea of crown. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140604113133/http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/ch4-17.html" target="_blank">Pirkei Avot</a> mentions the Crown of Torah (Keter Torah) and the Crown of a Good Name (Keter Shem Tov).<br/> <br/> Here are some that have come to me:<br/> <br/> crown of compassion<br/> crown of quiet<br/> crown of grace<br/> crown of purpose<br/> <br/> the crown of a clear conscience<br/> <div> <br/></div> <div> crown of dignity, wisdom and courage</div> <div> crown of yes</div> <div> <br/></div> <div> crown of good judgment</div> <div> crown of levity</div> <div> crown of love</div> <div> <br/></div> <div> the crown of a good night's sleep</div> <div style="clear:both; 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