Inspirational Storytelling
Rabbi Deb has also received Smicha (Ordination) as a Maggidah, Jewish Transformational Storyteller and Guide. As reported in The New Jersey Jewish News/Times of Israel, she completed a two-year program through the Transformational Storytelling Training Program, directed by Maggid Jim Brule.
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Rabbi Deb is available to provide storytelling programs and presentations for synagogues groups, other faith groups, as well as for religious schools, and for civic, community, and religious organizations.
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Rabbi Deb is currently contributing to the storytelling profession in a unique way. Using her expertise and long-time experience as an ethicist and ethics educator, she has created a Professional Code of Ethics for Storytellers.
A Maggidah’s Prayer – A Storyteller’s Prayer
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By Rabbi Debra Smith
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Source of All Life!
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Bless me as I share my holy stories.
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May I discern the best words and the right feelings to give the truest telling.
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May I share my tales and teachings in a respectful, responsible and ethical way.
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May I always honor the diversity of all present.
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Please grant me the gift of an open heart so that
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I may share my tales with sensitivity and listen with
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An open heart and mind to the responses of others.
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May I never forget that the transmission of these tales
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Is a sacred act intended to better all lives
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And to bring a piece of heaven down to us on earth.
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May it be so! Keyn y’hi ratzon.
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19 Tammuz 5778 – July 2, 2018