{"id":2121,"date":"2017-05-21T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/05\/21\/if-i-let-it-poem-preceding-shabbat-candle-lighting"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:10:26","slug":"if-i-let-it-poem-preceding-shabbat-candle-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/05\/21\/if-i-let-it-poem-preceding-shabbat-candle-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"“If I Let It” – Poem Preceding Shabbat Candle Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This short poem<\/a>\u00a0by Trisha Arlin<\/a> provides a \u201ckavanah,\u201d – a direction in which to focus one\u2019s attention – to be utilized when welcoming Shabbat. The poem mentions many ways in which Shabbat can be wonderfully different from all the other days of the week, but stipulates that in order for this transformation to take place, one must willingly and actively welcome the change. Arlin is a writer\/performer of kavanot and a rabbinic student at the Academy of Jewish Religion<\/a> (AJR), a pluralistic institution for rabbinic and cantorial training. This piece was submitted to\u00a0The Open Siddur Project<\/a>, an initiative that aims to\u00a0liberate the creative content of Jewish spiritual practice as a collectively shared resource for students, scholars, artists, and educators to adopt, adapt, and redistribute.<\/em><\/p>\n

“If I Let It: A Kavanah for Kabbalat Shabbat”<\/h2>\n

It grows dark.
\nI light two candles and drink a sip of wine
\nAnd the world changes for one day,
\nIf I let it.<\/p>\n

There will be music
\nAnd friendship
\nAnd food,
\nIf I allow it.<\/p>\n

There will be Torah
\nAnd wisdom
\nAnd God-ness,
\nIf I permit it.<\/p>\n

There will be quiet
\nAnd napping
\nAnd deep rest,
\nIf I open up to it<\/p>\n

There will be study
\nAnd expansion
\nAnd new ideas,
\nIf I consent to it.<\/p>\n

There will prayer
\nAnd blessings
\nAnd meditation,
\nIf I give in to it.<\/p>\n

There will be hope
\nAnd renewal
\nAnd clarity,
\nIf I walk toward it.<\/p>\n

If I let it
\nIf I allow it
\nIf I permit it
\nIf I open up to it
\nIf I consent to it.
\nIf I give in to it.
\nIf I walk toward it
\nThe world changes for one day.<\/p>\n

Shabbat happens,
\nIf I let it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I Let It: A Kavanah for Kabbalat Shabbat\u201d is shared by Trisha Arlin with a <\/span>Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International<\/span><\/a> copyleft license.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This short poem\u00a0by Trisha Arlin provides a \u201ckavanah,\u201d – a direction in which to focus one\u2019s attention – to be utilized when welcoming Shabbat. The poem mentions many ways in which Shabbat can be wonderfully different from all the other days of the week, but stipulates that in order for this transformation to take place, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[257,378,379,380,254,381,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2317\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}