Raising the Sparks Chant children hear the gentle refrain:

children hear the gentle refrain: The dark is not an end

and throughout the Golden Ring

to accept our humanity as defined by God

Track 20-Alleluia     De Profundis

pressed for further revelation

Raising the Sparks Chant children hear the gentle refrain:Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallaces sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raising the sparks, tikkun olam, comes from 16th century mystical Judaismthe belief that, if people worked to gather or raise the sparks from the sacred vessels that shattered at the moment of creation, a repair of the world from its initial splitting would be complete. It is the duty of each one of us to raise