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Are Your years the years of humans?

Job and Kafka Meet in Court

Job’s Intergenerational Trauma

Hanukkah Gift to Job: Let There be Light

Am I the Sea Monster?

Job+Jesus+Mythic Triads = The Gift of Friendship on This Holy Day

May Your Tent be Peace: When Einstein Meets Job

"Can humans be more pure than the Creator?"

Cancel My Birthday Forever

Are We Failing Job and Abraham's Tests?

Job's Wife Speaks

He Lived in the Land of Oz

Queen Mother's Parting Pearls of Wisdom

The Wisdom We Will Never Know

World Goes Wild Without a Vision

Next Zoom Conversation: POSTPONED

My Father's Hidden Homage to the Sabbath Queen

When Fear is Our Friend

Face to Face is our Moral Obligation

Respond to fools in accord with their folly

The mind of kings is unfathomable

No Joy When Your Foe Falls

Lazy Lying or a Lion in the Streets?

Wisdom’s Take on Late Night Drinking

Reimagine Initiation Rites

Charity in Secret Saves from Wrath

“the light of a candle or that of a blazing sun”

We plan -who laughs?

Attitude of Gratitude: Wisdom's Tips for Life

Praise for Chosen Families

Different Sounds of Silence

Empathy is the Real Heroine

Verbal De-escalation Training

The House that Wisdom Built - for Her

Watch: Who is She Who is Wisdom?

"To Reclaim Large Areas of Peace in Ourselves"

חוֹשֵׂ֣ךְ שִׁ֭בְטוֹ שׂוֹנֵ֣א בְנ֑וֹ Spare rod, spoil kid??

Anxious? Talk is Helpful.

11/21 Conversation on Who is Wisdom

The Bridal Snake: Can Charitable Living Make You Immortal??

May Memory Bring Blessings

Her House of Seven Pillars

Wisdom Who? Our Next Zoom Conversation on 11/21

Go Grovel? Radical Wisdom for Pursuing Peace

Wisdom at the Gate of Time

Slut Shaming, Solomon Style

Watch: Psalms of Peace Zoom Recording

Lazy? Learn from Ants

No Water for Strangers?

Ultimate Paradox of Thought

Reassuring Whisper from the Tree of Life

She is our Tree of Life

Fight The Fear of the Foreign

LISTEN TO HER WISDOM

With Every Breath We Sing our Soul

Double Edged Sword

She Says: Goodbye Psalms, Hello Proverbs

unsayable saying that none can unsay

Zoom Link: PSLAM for PEACE

Healer of the Broken Hearted

In Generosity We Trust?

Ashrei: The Curious History of Praising

when there will be no screaming in our streets

Join me online: PSLAM for PEACE

Release My Soul From Narrowness

“Longing like the Weary Land”

Prayer From Within a Cave

Incense is My Prayer

Your Hand Like a Hut Above my Head

Golem Meets the Book of Life

Musical Plant Medicine to Heal our Pains

"You Give me Courage"

Because of the Rivers of Babylon

"slew mighty kings"

Who is the House of Awesome?

Night Watch of the Sacred

Blessing of the Beard and Dew

Also Together

God’s Final Rest Stop

Wean Yourself

We Who Watch Out for the Dawn

This is How we Bless Each Other

15 Songs that Saved the World (and maybe will again?)

Pray for Perpetual Peace

Your Vigil Should Not be in Vain

To Always Be Like Dreamers

Mt. Zion. Forever?

“the trap broke, we flew free”

Secret of the 15 Songs of the Steps/Part 1

Female Gaze Frees both Maid & her Mistress

“For the sake of all that lives and is"

Help will Come from What is Not

What's a Back-Up Blessing?

I Am Peace.

What My Mother Said to the Sea

"This is marvelous in our sight"

We Are the 0.2%

Only The Good Die Young??

Blessing Those Who Stand With Us

Why Dante leaves the Barbarians Behind

How to Praise What's Good & also Protest Evil?

She Who Gets the Seat of Honor

Be Less Afraid of Bad News

Whose Holy Land Is It Anyway?

Was this Right Side of History Wrong?

David's Strange Satanic Verses

The Harp of Healing

David Meets Orpheus in the Gaza Synagogue

A Psalm for Surviving a Shipwreck

The land is polluted with bloodguilt

Why Sugarcoat our Painful Past?

The Birth of Broken Hallelujah

Like a Lone Bird on a Roof

Remember We Are Also Sacred Soil

Kissing Sacred Soil

In Truth we Trust

Happy Now?

Why We Still Bow to the Divine Footstool

Worldwide Standing Ovation

How the Trumpet Transformed

Just Sowing (our Seeds of Light)

What's the New Songs for the Future World?

How to Soften Stubborn Hearts?

God of Vengeance??

What's the Song Your Soul Needs Now?

This Is The Sea

Did the Sabbath Compose Her Own Poem?

The Noon Demon of The Ninth of Av

How Much Longer This Suffering?

We Must Build this World from Love

Tough Truth & Love on this Shabbat of Vision

"darkness is my only friend"

The Law & the Right of Return

So what’s a Hasid anyway?

When Peace & Justice Kiss

Nest in Peace

How to Respond to The Urge for Revenge?

Why Were Israel's First War Planes named 'Tempest' and 'Storm'?

How Long Will You Judge Perversely?

Secret of the Crescent Moon

Grapevine That Grows From River to Sea

Because of Bad Blood

Our Tribal Traumas: Reveal to Heal

The Unchosen Tribe of Israel

All Night You Hold My Eyelids Open

“The Assyrians: A Special Song”

Raise Your Cup: To Death or Life?

No Prophets Left

Words With Which We'll Dance Again

“we are drained of every very last tear”

The Riddle of the Middle End

Do not cast me off in old age

Woe to Those Who Boo

Queer King/Ultimate Other

The Only God That's Good is Global

He Rides the Clouds: The Oldest Psalm?

Shiviti: The Secret of Psalm 67 as Controversial Ritual Art

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You - Kinder?

Silence is Your Praise

Tongues as Sharp as Swords

Why We Come from Gratitude

Soul as parched as thirsty land

Out of the One - Many

Long Live the King?

Get God Off the Battlefield

David is Thrown to the Dogs

A Snail & A Dove to the Rescue

Are we Wicked from the Womb?

I will wake the dawn

the mute dove of distant places

One Day I'll Fly Away

Enemies: Eye to Eye

Watch: Who DID Write these Psalms?

Why Stories Matter More this Summer Solstice

"The ignorant say it's all accidental"

Thriving Olive Tree: A Psalm for Juneteenth

Believe Bathsheba's Broken Heart

Do the Deities Drink??

Do We Not All Share One Father?

King David's Pride Party

Going 'Round Zion in Circles

Sing a New Global Song Together

Be Still and Drop Your Gun

Who is The Queen of Gold Within?

Ancestral Lessons for Living and Dying

Rescheduled Monthly Zoom Meeting

The Protest Hidden in the Psalms

20% Soul Yearning

Deer, God: The Art of Yearning

The Double Amen Effect

a new song on my lips.

No human endures any longer than a breath.

Who are the Ones Who Sing Way Down Below?

Tyrant, Like Trees, Will Topple

Abandoned by My Friends

The Innocent Should Not be Starving

Bad Begins in Bed

Every Bone Sings Blessings

Seek and Pursue Peace.

Praise befits the Upright

Theological Toilet Training

The Poet's Pillow Talk

We Will Dance Again

Meet the Divine Family

Seeking Shelter

Counting Jews (the prohibition)

Home: Yearning

Where Does the Divine Dwell?

Rest (each night) in Peace

Open the Gates of Humility and Healing

Watch: Secrets of the Psalm Most Popular

Less Alone, through the Valleys.

A Seat at the Table: The Secret Solace of Psalm 23

Why Suffering? Jesus, Queen Esther & King David Debate the Dawn

'Sovereignty Shines through Your power'

Fathers' Faith for Troubled Times

Look Up! The Sky's Our Storyteller

The Most Famous Psalm of All

The View from Bible Hill

"You Have Wings of Spirit. Rise Up"

“Did some bird flap its wings?" Taylor Swift + Psalm 17

"I have come to the center of the universe"

Tents As Sacred Destinations?

No or Know God?

Wean from the Past, to Sing in the Present

How long will You hide Your face?

Words that Heal, Refined like Silver

4 Cups of Vengeance and/or Redemption?

"May mortals tyrannize no more.”

Can Grief Become Growth?

Just Say: Selah!

“What a piece of work is human"?

"You watch me bleed and blossom"

How Much Longer??

Your Throat is an Open Grave

We Need, Right Now, More Bedtime Prayers

“Read a Chapter Every Night” - My Grandmother’s Gift

King on the Run from His Own Son: A Poem.

Love You to Pieces! (and other paradoxical metaphors)

Pslam 1: Planted Like a Tree

The Last and Longest Lasting Prophet

Watch: Prophets to Poets

Why is the Altar Wet with Wives' Tears?

Turning off the Prophets' Road

Was the Last Prophet a Protest Playwright?

New Water at the End of the World

Who Dismantled Patriarchal Prophecy?

Public Grief of Epic Proportions

Follow the Money: Thirty Silver Coins

From Prophets to Poets - Ready for the Pslams?!

Four Famous last words? Thurman on Jesus + King David for Good Friday

River, Sea, and Eternal Combat Myth

Why Does the Messiah Ride a Donkey?

When Jerusalem's Children Will Play Together in Peace

Must We Keep Weeping for the Past?

Who Will Wear the Second Crown?

The Scrolls of Secrets: Esther meets Zechariah

They Tried but Failed to Silence the Goddess.

Not By Force But By Spirit

Satan and the Stone of Seven Eyes

Flee! You Who Dwells with Babylon’s Daughter

That Night I Saw a Rider on a Red Horse

Holy Hilltop Temple Debate, Continued.

This Will be The Place of Peace?

Is it Time to Build the Temple Yet??

Is One Global Language Good or Bad?

Perhaps you will find shelter

Was Shoah Day Predicted by This Prophet?

We Must Reclaim the Prophetic Moral Voice

When the Lions of Judah Will Roar Again, in Jamaica & Jerusalem

Where DID YHWH come from?

Martin Luther's Revelation, Inspired by the Prophet Habakkuk

How Much Longer This Violence???!

"Nobody Left to Comfort in the Rubble"

Rise and Fall of Lion Kings

We Must Reclaim the Prophetic Moral Voice

How We Love to Hate the Prophets

The Burden of Being the Bad Guys

Micah's Recipe for Good Life Goes Viral

Hurl our Hurts Into the Sea to be Forgiven?

Micah, Jesus & the Seven Shepherds

Under Your Fig Tree in Peace?

Micah, Jonah and Margaret Mead

"Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins"?

“They covet people's lands and steal them”

Micah Moans with Owls

When the Prophet learns to Love

Five Words Save The World

A Feminist-Palestinian Reading of Jonah

Inside or Outside the Whale? Orwell and Rushdie Read Jonah

Runaway Seer from the Fictional City of Sin

Can These Twin Rivals Ever Reconcile?

Buber, Amos and the BiNational Vision of Healing and Hope

Famine for The Feast of both Body & Soul

Why Amos Still Matters Today to the Pursuit of Peace?

When Amos met Cinderella & Theodore Herzl

Seer Be Gone!

Hush! Don’t Dare Name the Divine Mid Disaster

“Somehow the preacher must be an Amos”

How is Cow an Insult?

Can These Two Walk Together?

Fourth Strike is final

Our Sibling Sold for Shoes??

Crimes Against Humanity

Beat your plowshares into swords??

Everybody Will be Prophets One Day

Tear Your Heart Not Your Clothing

Join me on Feb. 1 for our Next Monthly Zoom Conversation

Imagine: Not just Us but All of Us.

Why is the Fig Miserable? Welcome to Joel's World.

Like a Dew Drop on a Rose Petal

The Final Strand of Smoke

Israel:Born to Fight AND Evolve?

Mommy Dearest? Iron Age Theology for the Digital Age

"The prophet is a person, not a microphone."

Our King Like foam on water

Hosea the Meshuggeneh: Prophecy +Psychosis

Hosea Calls Bullshit

Drunk Baker Burns It All Down

"I desire love, not your sacrifices"

"carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”

King for One Moon

Blood Touches Blood

“Go, Love a Woman”

Watch: Ezekiel Gets the Last Word

Don’t Call me Husband Anymore

“Whore is not her name“

Why is the Prophetic Menorah Outside?

Rename the City ‘God is T/here’

Only Opens on Sabbath

The Sacred Origin of Healing

Enough, leaders of Israel!