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Seeding Light: Speaking From The Heart in Dark Times
with Mirabai Starr & Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
An Intimate Talk About the Ongoing Violence in the Middle East and Chanukah Ritual
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Thank you for joining in conversation and ritual in this heartbreaking time.
In our time together, Mirabai and Tirzah came together to share the unbearable heartbreak in Israel and Palestine, exploring the moral dilemmas they experience, and reaffirming the power of the heart to shift the global conversation from one of polarization to one that roots us in our common humanity.
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Mirabai and Tirzah offered this gathering free of charge and encourage your reciprocity by contributing where it is most needed right now.
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Seeding Light Follow Up Resources
Places to Donate
Mirabai and Tirzah offered this gathering free of charge and encourage your reciprocity by contributing where it is most needed right now. Here are some places to share our resources.
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund operates relief programs for children in Gaza, where half of the population is under 18.
Doctors Without Borders provides independent, impartial urgently needed medical humanitarian aid in moments of crisis and conflict.
Merhav Marpeh מרחב מרפא provides immediate and integrative support to trauma survivors of the Hamas attack in Israel.
Middle East Children’s Alliance provides emergency assistance to families who have fled their homes and emergency medical supplies for hospitals and clinics.
Catharsis Holistic Healing needs funds to send therapists into Gaza as soon as the bombing is over. They also run a program for Palestinian children that combines yoga, meditation and creative art therapy to address stress and trauma.
Rabbis for Human Rights fights for human rights in the West Bank.
Pray with your voice
As unfathomable violence continues, we know that each call to a local representative and conversation we have can be a prayer. Join us in calling for a permanent ceasefire in Palestine/Israel.
You can reach your Congressperson easily with the app 5 calls or by calling (202) 225-3121.
For step-by-step support in daily calls for ceasefire and tending our grief click here (from Revolutionary Love Project).
Join community calls to oppose rising hate speech and violence against Muslim and Jewish communities. Learn more about how to organize against antisemitism (and download the unraveling antisemitism poster) and how to organize against Islamophobia (and download the bystander intervention poster).
Express your gratitude to leaders who are taking heart and courage and calling for a ceasefire – elected officials, rabbis and all faith leaders, well-known artists, and community voices around the world.
Resources
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone – Find it at local independent bookstores, on Amazon, and just released as an audiobook (listen for free from your library!)
Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr
Caravan of Despair, newly on audiobook, by Mirabai Starr
You are invited to a refuge for those who are grieving for the world using creative and contemplative practices, writing prompts and sacres singing to restore our souls so we can serve as instruments of peace: Acknowledging Global Grief with Mirabai Starr & Willow Brook
Prayer and Poetry
Shekhina Prayer by Mirabai Starr
Summons by Aurora Levins Morales
