During the Gesher and Kitah Hey Tefillah (worship) experience today, we wondered
about what we do when we pray: talk to God, express our gratitude to God, ask
God for what we need, reflect on our lives… We learned that the Hebrew word for
worship, avodah, also means work and
we realized that sometimes praying is like work. We learned to say the blessing prior to
putting on a tallit and then wrapped
ourselves in tallitot. We heard a story, The Tallit, about a boy who wrote prayers and blessings in the
folds of his tallit and gave his beloved tallit to a stranger. At his bar
mitzvah, this tallit magically reappeared with new blessings, “To the boy who
showed me so much kindness when I needed it most. I give you my blessing. Shana tova v’chaim tovim--A good year and a good life. I pray that you will not be hungry, cold, or
lonely.”
Students were invited to write
prayers and blessings to be metaphorically put in the folds of their tallitot. Their prayers and blessings are beautiful and profound! Kol hak'vod!
- God, I
pray that no one is hungry and everyone has a home. I pray for world peace and no war. I pray for everyone to be happy.
- I pray
for world peace. Bless this world, for understanding others.
- I wish
for all to share and care for each other just as I do.
- Please
help all the world.
- May
everything turn out the way you would like it to. May you be blessed with love, peace, and
happiness.
- I pray
that nobody suffers and will never be lonely.
- I pray
that everyone I know stays healthy.
- My prayer
is that every kid could have a good family. My prayer is to be in control of my body
and my words.
- Dear God,
I pray that a kid who doesn’t get to go to camp, will go to overnight camp
in the summer and have fun!
- Blessed
are you Lord our God, please make it so everyone can eat, be warm and
sleep in peace.
- I pray
that when I grow up, I will have a good life.
- This
year, I hope that all the people will not be hungry; people will have what
they need.
- I pray
that the clothes, toys and books that we donated some day will belong to
someone who used to be poor.
- I pray
that everyone in my family and my friends are all very healthy and
happy. I pray that God is happy and
healthy too.
- Dear God,
I pray that I will never do something bad.
- Don’t be
greedy and give to the needy.
- My prayer
is that all who are hungry get food.
- I pray
that there’s no poor people
- Once upon
a time there was a little girl. She
wasn’t very good at Hebrew. Her best
friend moved away and she was very sad but her mom showed her the tallit
and she feels better when she sees it and is a lot better.
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