Trisha Arlin

<strong>Thank you so much for your interest!  To purchase my book, PLACE YOURSELF: WORDS OF PRAYER AND INTENTION, or see my online blog, please go to <a href="http://www.trishaarlin.com">www.trishaarlin.com</a><br></strong><br>I send out  emails  about classes and workshops that I do via Zoom.   FOR MY PATREON PATRONS WHO CONTRIBUTE $18 A MONTH OR MORE, ALL CLASSES ARE HALF OFF.<br><br>I am a writer and performer.  I was a playwright and screenwriter and then,
in 2009, I wrote my first prayer, &quot;Fruit Flies&quot; for a Birkat HaChamma
service (the prayers for the sun that are done every 28 years) in Prospect
Park, Brooklyn and I became obsessed with the form and its function liturgically
and personally . I have been writing prayers, new liturgy and kavannot ever
since. <br><br>Each piece is a holy conversation
with the divine, what Alicia Ostriker calls, &quot;The Fierce Mystery&quot;,
whatever that is meaning for me at any given moment.  My first book, “PLACE YOURSELF: Prayers and Words of Intention”, a
collection of new liturgy and kavannot, has been  published by Dimus Parrhesia Press.<br><br>Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have been teaching on Zoom for Ritualwell and Haggadot.com. and at synagogues around the country.  My work is anthogized in liturgical collections and in new siddurim.  Since the pandemic began, I regularly write in a kind of collaboration with the Bayit Liturgical Artists at the Bayit.org blog.   My handwashing prayer, written at the beginning of the pandemic, is posted in synagogues, churches, care centers and newsletters across the country.<br><br>
I was the Liturgist-In-Residence during the National
Havurah Committee's 2014 Summer Institute and I have served as
Scholar-In-Residence, prayer leader, teacher, speaker and reader at synagogues
and Jewish venues in Brooklyn, Westchester, New Jersey and Ohio. My work has
been published online on 
<a href="http://ritualwell.org/">RitualWell.org</a>, the<a href="http://opensiddur.org/"> Open Siddur
Project 
</a>, and at my site,<a href="http://www.triganza.blogspot.com/">Trisha Arlin:
Words of Prayer and Intention
</a>. <br><br>I <strong>share my work online with a Creative Commons license and I am happy that it is used in services and gatherings around the US and Canada and other countries. But I need to pay my bills, I need time to arrange residencies and appearances, prepare a book and most of all, to write and study.  Please help me if you can. <br></strong><br>
<div style="margin-left: 20px;">&quot;Trisha Arlin's liturgies are so
fresh you'd think someone just picked them off the vine.  They are
thoughtful and reverent yet utterly modern, with language that evokes the grit
and doubt of the real world.  They have the depth of traditional prayer,
and, one has the sense of the real internal monologue of a contemporary human
being.  These prayer-poems are needed as a voice of the times and a
signpost on the way to the sacred.&quot;--Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, translator of
The Romemu Siddur and author of The Book of Earth and Other<br> 
<br>
&quot;Thanks to Trisha Arlin we observe
Rosh Hodesh Elul with prayers and blessings for animals.  Her extended
blessing focusing on the smallest of animals - the bugs and even smaller - was
astonishing:  funny, deep, thought-provoking.  It connected us all to
the Divine in a completely new way.&quot; ---Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Kolot
Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives<br>
<br>
&quot;Trisha Arlin’s prayers create
worlds of spiritual space that invoke a worshipful tone. Then they puncture
complacency and boldly ask, badger, and provoke. They awaken us. And then they
restore the spiritual space, but we’re a bit more comfortable in it because
like us, the prayers are faithful and faithless, hopeful and hopeless, serious
and playful. The overall affect is a prayer spot wherein moderns who yearn may
find comfort, solace, and a smile.&quot; --Rabbi Jeff Hoffman,
D.H.L., Rabbi-In-Residence and Director of Institutional
Assessment, The Academy for Jewish Religion<br>
<br>
&quot;In my congregation are published
authors and readers of professional quality as well as students and just plain
folk. They relish the opportunity to read one of Trisha's kavvanot aloud during
services. The rhythms of her poetry awaken our hearts on the High Holy Days and
her words, real, alive and down to earth enhance our Shabbat worship experience
throughout the rest of the Jewish calendar year.&quot;--Rabbi Peg
Kershenbaum, Congregation B'nai Harim, Pocono Pines, PA.<br>
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&quot;Trisha Arlin's prayer-poems are
evocative, moving, and spiritual. I am constantly amazed by their deceptive
simplicity, which opens like a flower unfolding to reveal color upon color,
each richer than the last.&quot;--Rabbi Jennifer Singer,Spiritual Leader,
Congregation Kol HaNeshama, Board Member, ALEPH Alliance for Jewish
Renewal<br>
<br> &quot;Love
  this [Rosh Hashana Amidah] and am sharing it again to Kol Hai this
  year.&quot; ---Shir Yaakov Feit, Aleph Rabbinic Student, Spiritual
  Leader, Kol Hai, New Paltz NY </div>






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  I know how to write words that are meant to be
spoken out loud and heard in real time: 
I received a BA in Theater from Antioch College in 1975 and MFA in Film
(Screenwriting) in 1997 from Columbia University School of the Arts. But I
realized I needed to know more about Judaism if I wanted to add depth and take
on tradition.  So, in 2009/2010, I was an
Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute; in 2011, I graduated from the sixth cohort
of the Davennen Leadership Training Institute (DLTI); and from 2012 to 2018 I was a
part-time second career rabbinic student at the Academy of Jewish Religion
(AJR) in order to study Jewish liturgy.  <br><br><strong><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">DRAW A LINE:  Creating Sacred Space During a Pandemic</span></strong><br>© 2020 Patricia Arlin<div><div><div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NHM-wFXdiYg/XzwNpMmPMUI/AAAAAAAADQQ/0_nYRW3M9eo7xyw6Xb22a3GPyMFyIzSwgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/5EFEC8D3-55DC-400D-83ED-90633998D22F.jpeg"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NHM-wFXdiYg/XzwNpMmPMUI/AAAAAAAADQQ/0_nYRW3M9eo7xyw6Xb22a3GPyMFyIzSwgCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/5EFEC8D3-55DC-400D-83ED-90633998D22F.jpeg"></a><br><em>Kadosh means holy but it also means separate. Conscious separation and mindfulness create holiness, so you may want to create a sacred space by drawing lines and deciding when to cross them.<br></em><br>Draw a line in space around yourself,<br>As you sit in front of your screen<br>Declare, “Here is where I have holy conversations.” <br><br>Trace a line in time to separate Now from Before and After.<br>These are the hours for rest and joy, redemption and community.<br>Happy New Year!<br><br>Create a line around sound and sing at home with the Cantor.<br>Make the music holy with your breath.<br>Every breath is a prayer.<br><br>Drape a line around yourself!<br>Put on a tallis and a kippa,<br>Everything underneath them is holy and that means you. <br><br>Decide that there are lines of privilege you won’t cross<br>And consider that there are lines you should join:<br>Picket lines, protest lines and lines to vote.<br><br>Blessed Holy Wholeness,<br>Though apart we are together<br>As we stand on Holy Ground. <br>Shabbat Shalom, Shanah Tova and G’mar Khatima Tova!<br>Amen</div></div></div></div>
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<ul><li>A reading of my work at the venue of your choice, concentrating on the topic or holiday of your choice</li><li>Workshop, "Writing Personal Prayer" for friends or congregation or private prayer writing workshop</li><li>(transportation, food and overnight costs not included)</li><li>Book signing if requested</li><li>Your name in acknowledgements in next book published</li><li>My love and gratitude</li><li>Regular emails on my progress to all my patrons</li></ul>

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<ul><li>An Artist/Scholar in Residence:  A reading of my work at the venue of your choice, concentrating on the topic or holiday of your choice</li><li>Workshop, "Writing Personal Prayer" for friends or congregation or private prayer writing workshop</li><li>Writing Kavannot for Shabbat workshop before Kabbalat Shabbat</li><li>Participation in services OR lead alternative service</li><li>Will write new prayers, kavannot or drash for the services or occasion, as needed</li><li>(transportation, food and overnight costs not included)</li><li>Signed copy of book</li><li>Book signing if requested</li><li>Your name in acknowledgements in next book published</li><li>My love and gratitude</li><li>Regular emails on my progress to all my patrons</li></ul>

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