The World Celebrates Rabbi Marcia Prager

Rabbi Marcia Prager, an inspirational Jewish Renewal spiritual leader, teacher, guide, and colleague, has become a model for a new generation of lay and professional leadership. Through her, many of us have forged an intimate, passionate relationship with Judaism, with the divine in all of us, and thus, with each other.

The P'nai Or Philadelphia Jewish Renewal community is grateful that in 5772 (2011) R. Marcia celebrated 18 years of serving as our Rabbi-Chaver. In her honor, friends from around the world shared these many stories, poems, and loving tributes, to show our gratitude and naches at this wonderful milestone!



Standing at Her Window


One of R. Marcia's "teachings" that touched me so much as a somewhat new "Renewalnik" was when she was a speaker at Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill for their sisterhood in the mid '90's. She was talking about standing at her window, washing her hands and the gifts she got from that simple task: the gift of water just from turning the faucet; the feel of the water flowing over her hands; the awareness of the source of that water and the effort it took to bring that water to her home! In essence, the water symbolized the gifts of many and especially a gift from Hashem!
Janet Neufeld
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