Alden Solovy

Alden Solovy (he/him) is a liturgist, poet, and teacher. His teaching spans from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem to Limmud UK and synagogues throughout the U.S. He is the author of Grateful/Joyous/Precious trilogy (CCAR Press). The individual books are: This Joyous Soul , This Grateful Heart, and This Precious Life.

Upturned hands holding a lit candle in the darkness as in prayer or mourning

Death and Mourning

For the Sufis of the Sinai: A Prayer of Mourning

Alden Solovy

November 27, 2017

At least 300 are dead and 125 injured after an attack on a Sufi mosque in the Northern Sinai on Friday, including at least 27 children.

Blue light and roof of police car in the foreground; blurry crowd in the background

For Manhattan, New York: A Prayer After Terror

Alden Solovy

November 1, 2017

After another day of horror, this one in New York City, read liturgist Alden Solovy’s prayer for the victims and their families. May we never need another prayer like this again.

Firefighters work to put out a wildfire blazing across dry land

The Land is Burning: A Prayer for California

Alden Solovy

October 16, 2017

This is an original prayer to end the California wildfires, for safety, for the victims, for healing and for renewal.

Yom Kippur

Cry No More, a Prayer for Yom Kippur

Alden Solovy

This prayer is about having compassion for ourselves while repairing the damage we’ve done to self and others. I wrote it after my first Yom Kippur in Jerusalem, my first in Israel as an oleh chadash (a new immigrant).