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Keally Cieslik

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Olive on the Seder Plate

by Keally Cieslik

The great genius of the Seder is how at its core it is always the same, but it is also flexible enough to integrate new traditions and local variations. I’ve celebrated a Seder for a living wage in Baltimore and for Mumia Abu Jamal in San Francisco and, perhaps most moving, I participated in an enormous outdoor Seder in Tel Aviv with homeless Sudanese refugees who had just literally experienced yetziat mitzrayim, the exodus from Egypt. Bringing contemporary social and economic...

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On Loss - P'howa

by Keally Cieslik

This is a description for what the Tibetans call "P'howa," a preparation to ease the process of dying or to support recovery. P’howa means ‘transferring consciousness from one state to another.’ At the ‘moment’ of death, the skillful means of the “p’howa of three recognitions” allows us to direct our consciousness out of our body into the exalted state of Amitabha Buddha’s pure realm. This is something you can do for yourself, or for someone else: It would be easier if...

Next Year in Jerusalem

by Keally Cieslik

Next year in Jerusalem… "Brothers and sisters, tonight we have been remembering our slavery and our liberation. But just as it was we, not our ancestors only, who were liberated in Egypt, so it is we, not our ancestors only, who live in slavery. Our slavery is not over, and our liberation is not complete. The task of liberation is long, and it is work that we must do ourselves. As the Talmud tell us, we, like Moses, may not live...

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HOPE Palestine

by Keally Cieslik

HOPE Palestine

A Bread for Staying

by Keally Cieslik

a bread for staying one day a slowly risen bread mixed at dawn turned all morning loafed at noon baked for dinner a bread in whose pockets the soup pools one day a bread for staying don't be grandiose about bread I am told by the jaded part of myself and also by the part of myself that has never fled another part of myself knows what a slow bread means knows the pleasure of kneading and also the privilege of...

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

The Freedom Seder Dayenu

by Keally Cieslik

Selections from Liberation Now: Next Year in a World of Freedom, a Haggadah for Passover by Arthur I. Waskow used on the third night of Passover, April 4, 1969, the first anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, in the basement of a Black church in Washington DC. About 800 people took part, half of them Jews, the rest Black and white Christians. “For if we were to end a single genocide but not stop the other wars that kill...

A Prayer Among Friends

by Keally Cieslik

Prayer among Friends by John Daniel Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive with one another, we walk here in the light of this unlikely world that isn't ours for long. May we spend generously the time we are given. May we enact our responsibilities as thoroughly as we enjoy our pleasures. May we see with clarity, may we seek a vision that serves all beings, may we honor the mystery surpassing our sight, and may we hold in...

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