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Alden Solovy

Liturgist, Teacher, Author
To Bend Light
Participates in 2 items
Alden Solovy is a liturgist, author, journalist and teacher. He’s written more than 600 pieces of new liturgy, offering a fresh new Jewish voice, challenging the boundaries between poetry, meditation, personal growth and prayer. His writing was transformed by multiple tragedies, marked in 2009 by the sudden death of his wife from catastrophic brain injury. Solovy’s teaching spans from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem to Limmud, UK, and synagogues throughout the U.S. The Jerusalem Post called his writing “soulful, meticulously crafted.” Huffington Post Religion said “…the prayers reflect age-old yearnings in modern-day situations.” Solovy is a three-time winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. He made aliyah to Israel in 2012, where he hikes, writes, teaches, and learns. His work has appeared in Mishkan R'Fuah: Where Healing Resides (CCAR Press, 2012), L'chol Z'man v'Eit: For Sacred Moments (CCAR Press, 2015), Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe (CCAR Press, 2015), and Gates of Shabbat, Revised Edition (CCAR Press, 2016). He is the author of This Grateful Heart: Psalms and Prayers for a New Day, published by CCAR Press in 2017.

Sessions in which Alden Solovy participates

Monday 19 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Prayer as ‘Deepest Desire’: A Spiritual Chevruta
1 hour 15 minutes, 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Hotel Irvine - Trabuco A

Workshop

Alden Solovy, To Bend Light (Participant)

What do we do when prayer feels vacant, empty, hollow? A life of prayer has its own rhythm, and sometimes that rhythm falls flat. In this session w...

Wednesday 21 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Six-Word Siddur: Finding Essential Prayers
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Hotel Irvine - Quail Hill

Workshop

Alden Solovy, To Bend Light (Participant)

In this hands-on session, we’ll look at core prayers in Mishkan T’filah and attempt to boil them down to their essential six words...