Remember
with Nomy Lamm & Ibrahim Baba
In Nomy Lamm’s Movement Ancestors project, she creates portraits of beloved ancestors of inspiration whose change-making and radical ways of being, blessing and resisting have opened the way for so many of us to be who and how we are. Featured here are Nomy’s portraits of scholartivist, tikkunolamologist and shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje and musical polymath, Charming Hostess creatrix and powerhouse artist Jewlia Eisenberg.
A Meditative Prayer for Reciting Daily (along with Kaddish) for the Dying and the Dead and those Who Mourn Their Passing From This World by Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje | published in the Handbook for Daily Spiritual Practice he crafted for his chevra kadisha (holy burial society) circle
O, Holy One, O Shekhinah. Merciful and compassionate One, surround with your tenderness all of those who are passing from the visible world to the invisible world, especially those who will die alone in fear and anxiety, and those who will die in the streets, those who will die in prisons, those for whom no one will think to pray.
May your holy angels accompany all those who breathe their last; may all bitterness and anxiety and fear vanish in their final moments: may they die in the sweetness of your fragrance.
Open the way before them, ease their way and pour galaxy-oceans of peace into the hearts of those that love and cherish them.
May Your peace abide, overflowing in the hearts of all. May old wounds be healed, may unfinished business be finished.
May their memory be as a blessing to all generations and may they be forever enfolded in the waves of Unending Life and may the hearts of those who mourn be gently and tenderly massaged with your infinite love, O superluminal Shekhinah. O, Holy One, O Shekhinah. And so let us say, AMEIN!!
Who are YOUR movement ancestors?
How have they shaped, inspired and dreamed you into being?
How are you an expression of their best dreaming? How do you feel them with you still?
Nomy Lamm
…is a musician, illustrator, creative coach, a kohenet/Hebrew Priestess, and the Creative Director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice based performance project. Nomy sings with her bff Erin in two bands, ((double hug)) and FAMILIORS, and creates ritual tools for anti-zionist queer Jewish practice, including the Dreaming the World to Come planner and the Omer Oracle deck. They live on occupied Squaxin land in so-called Olympia, WA with their partner Lisa and their animal companions Dandelion, Momma, and Romance. Learn more at nomyteaches.com