Webster’s Wings

White Dove Release

To contact us:

Tina & Derik Webster

Phone: 918-694-DOVE (3683)

Message: 918-798-7561

E-mail: tina@websterswings.net

Yom Kippur Ceremony

Kapparot

 

God of the fields and open country;

God of mind and heart and spirit,

We are ready now for Your Yom Kippur,

To stand beneath your sheltering wings,

More beautiful still than the birds we hold. 

 

You know the animals of every forest.

You know the beasts on a thousand mountains.

You know the feathers on every birds.

Each one rises to call out your name.

 

Based on Psalms 50:10-11

 

We turn ourselves toward Your holy city. 

We turn ourselves toward warmth and comfort.

We turn ourselves toward the setting sun.

We turn ourselves toward the winds of winter.

 

We lift these birds toward Your heavenly throne.

We lower these birds to the earth below.

Let healing come from all directions.

Let peace flow from us in all directions.

Let justice enter the world through us.

Let forgiveness enter the world through You.

Let these birds lift us on outstretched wings

To see Your face and feel Your tenderness.

 

We are now prepared to release these birds.

Give us a share of their sweet freedom. 

 

Lift our cares.  Lift our anger.

Lift our hurts and make us free.

Let the year before us be a bright, clean plume;

A wing extended on a stream of air.

 

“Arise, my darling;

My fair one, come away!

O my dove, in the cranny of the rocks,

Hidden by the cliff,

Let me see your face,

Let me hear your voice;

For your voice is sweet

And your face is beautiful.”

 

Song of Solomon 2:13-14

 

The birds are released.

 

And the priest shall set the live bird free

Outside the city in the open country.

Thus he shall make atonement for the house,

And it shall be clean.

 

Leviticus 14:53

Four people hold birds during the reading of the poem.

B’Nai Enumah Congregation, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Although we are not Jewish, it has been our honor and a blessing to help with this. 

The children then have a turn to hold a bird, a prayer is said in Hebrew, then release it.