ALT Image with text which reads: “When you reach the way of spices, Fiery and sweet, Cinnamon and ginger, cumin and cardamom, Inhale with all of your senses. Taste this moment, Mixtures of the familiar and the new, Subtle and strong, Salt and pepper, The way of ending and beginning.” —Alden Solovy, This Precious Life

ALT Image with text which reads: “Let my acts of kindness and mercy, Tenderness and grace, Charity and forgiveness, Pile up as a mountain of stones, On the scale of righteousness And on the scale of love.” —Alden Solovy, These Words

ALT Image with text which reads: “If you listen, Listen . . . If you listen you will hear Shabbat returning to her distant place, Retreating slowly, quietly, Gently opening the space Between the kodesh and the chol, Between the holy and the routine, Separating eternity from the ordinary.” —Alden Solovy, This Grateful Heart

ALT Image with text which reads Let the language of your soul Sing all around you, Drawing others into the music, Drawing others into the song, The rhythm of the universe, Which is, was, and always will be Love. —Alden Solovy, These Words