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Poetry & Meditation
Poetry & Meditation
A Prayer Before I Pray
Meditations by Harold M. Schulweis
Birth/Brith
- Above All, Teach this Newborn Child
- Brith Covenant on the Eighth Day
- Cleft on the Upper Lip
- From Where Did You Come?
- In My Arms
- Not Where But When
- Parents at a Birth
- Whose am I?
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
- Bar-Bat Mitzvah
- The Birth of Conscience
- A Parent's Dream
- My Grandson's Bar Mitzvah
- A Parent's Perspective
- Reflections of a Parent
- Reflections of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah: The Day After
The Wedding
- Bride and Groom
- Marriage the Great Choice
- Mirror Eyes
- The Glass is Broken
- Twoness
- Wine, Canopy, Ring and Glass
- Yet (For Malka)
In Sickness and Health
- Based on Psalm 77
- Healing Insights
- Mi Shebeirach
- Nature Pursues its Own Course
- On the Miracle of Recovery
- Post Operative Prayer
Mourning
- Alone Together
- Bitter - Sweet: In the Memory of a Child
- Comforting the Comforters
- Consolation
- Death and Free Choice
- Eulogy for One Remembered
- Fear of Death
- For Those Beloved Who Survive Me
- Graveside Reflections
- Holding on and Letting go
- How to Mourn
- It is Never Too Late
- Krieh - Tearing the Cloth
- Life and Death
- Returning from the Funeral
- Sanctified Mourning
- Sculpting Memory
- Strange Envy
- The Shiva Candle is Lit
- Where is Grandma?
- The Yahrzeit Glass
Godliness and Immortality
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