A former Executive Director of Hillel at Ohio State University consulted with Devon in the design of livable liturgy for their students and team during the High Holidays.

In addition to supporting students, including those students who are on the spectrum and could explore liturgy as puzzles as in the image to the left, Devon supported the Executive Director in personally exploring confession during the holiest days and finding words that spoke the truth of their leadership and very soul.

The text of the Upside Down Unetanneh Tokef is below:

Upside Down Unetanneh Tokef
(read poem forward and then back)

I should be hiding

So, don’t tell me that

You/We contain Truth

And I will remind myself that

You do not perform wonders

And I will not be deluded into believing

I am not made in Your Image

Because I refuse to believe

That I am worthwhile

That I deserve the Divine Mercy to look upon myself with loving compassion and to see

That all You have revealed exists within me

Because when I look at myself, all I can think of is:

G-d, are you really as merciless and unforgiving to have made an impure “me”?