After reading the first chapter in God’s To-Do List, I decided to create a new ritual. Here's how it goes. I have a beautiful little bowl, which I've now dedicated to this ritual. Every morning I fill it with water and say the Yotzer prayer [the prayer which follows the Borechu in the morning service and has the theme of creation]. I leave the bowl on the window sill until the end of the day, when I'm getting ready for bed. Then I say the Maariv Aravim prayer [the prayer which follows the Borechu in the evening service with the theme of creation] and pour the water out. It helps me think of each day as a precious cup of time and space, to be filled only once, and the beautiful prayers (which, I must admit, I never before said on a daily basis) have brought me closer to the Creator of all.
** From a CBI congregant who prefers to remain anonymous
September 2009 "Wrestle"
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Wow, that's beautiful. I find that so many things in Judaism aren't just beautiful or meaningful because "God said so", or someone told me to do it, but because we invest meaning into it ourselves. This is inspirational.
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