shmira readings

[Ilene Rubenstein]

I know that traditionally psalms are read during shmira.

Does anybody have any suggestions for alternative readings that would also be suitable?

[Nancy Dotti]

Hi Ilene,

The Kehila Chevra Kadisha in Piedmont California has made two wonderful books. One of alternative readings and the other of psalms with great attention paid to the translations. I would recommend contacting Cathy a:

ketz...@sbcglobal.net

Hope this helps,

Nancy

Sonoma County Chevra Kadisha

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I know that traditionally psalms are read during shmira.

Does anybody have any suggestions for alternative readings that would also be suitable?

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[Joel Ackelsberg]

Ilene,

The shmira unit of our CK recently pulled together readings that will be bound into a shmira book. I'm copying the Table of Contents below. Please note that some of the texts are by poets who are community members, which we found to be a meaningful touch.

Joel Ackelsberg

Bnai Keshet (Montclair, NJ)

Readings for Shmira

Introduction: Guidelines for participants

Prayer for the Shomerim 

Blessing: Mah Tovu

Chants

 

I.              Selections from Kol Haneshamah, the Daily Prayerbook  (Copy provided)

II.         Shmira readings from Prayers for a House of Mourning  (Copy provided)

III.        Poems

Psalms 23, 27, 49, Robert Alter, trans.

            Fields of Sunflowers, Yehuda Amichai

In a Time Beyond Time, World to Come, Rabbi Rachel Barenblatt

Blessing the Boats, Lucille Clifton

Absence, Miriam’s Song, The Last Chapter, Jessica de Koninck

Life After Death, Laura Gilpin

Lives of My Grandfather, Waving Back, When My Father Couldn’t Catch      the Ball, Martin Golan

The Long Boat, Stanley Kunitz

Poem, Rabbi Janet Madden

Epitaph, Merrit Malloy

Prayers, Kadya Molodowsky

Grief; Nocturnal Life, Yvette Neisser Moreno

Snowflakes, my mother called them; Kaddish, Marge Piercy

            Te Deum, Charles Reznikoff

The Place Will Comfort You, Susan Windle

 

 

IV.  Prose selections

Selections, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sitting Shmira; Shmira, Rabbi Rachel Barenblatt (Velveteen Rabbi)

Messages of Kaddish, Anita Diamant

My Father’s New York, Martin Golan

Restoring the World (My Grandfather’s Blessings), Rachel Naomi Remen

Sabbath, Oliver Sacks

 

Personal Thoughts and Reflections

Please add your personal thoughts and memories 

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