Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Full name: Rachel Barenblat

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Over the years your staples have slipped and pages loosened. Here a faded purple crescent of ancient wine, there a smudge from bricks of date paste. But when you speak I swoon....

Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

The day after the seder, reality shoves back in like a football player with lowered shoulder. Dishes to wash: the browned kugel pan, chopping knives, the eggbeater that whipped the whites for Eppie’s matzah balls, the gravy boats that held haroset, the glass bowls encrusted with salt. All day...

Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

"So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks upon their shoulders." —Exodus 12:34 You’ll need to travel light. Take what you can carry: a book, a poem, a battered tin cup, your child strapped to your chest, clutching your necklace in one...

Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Breakfast on kosher macaroons and Diet Pepsi in the car on the way to Price Chopper for lamb. Peel five pounds of onions and let the Cuisinart shred them while you push them down and weep....

Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

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