Tiferet Welch

My poetry is, I hope, steeped in modern Jewish mysticism and draws on the arc of Torah and deeply felt personal experience to create a sensuous and sensual swirl of living in and through the four worlds, especially in the time of the pandemic.
 
Exploring the parshiot by way of the sages, drawing out the kaballistic essence, mining the subterranean allusions of the Hebrew letters and binding them all within the personal, the poems form a chronicle of this liminal time.
black and white photo of road in desert opening up to mountains and sky of dark and light clouds
black and white photo of road in desert opening up to mountains and sky of dark and light clouds

Created Darkness and the Fashioning of Light

January 31, 2023
light skinned man with short brown beard with arm around woman in black shirt with short brown hair shown from the back
light skinned man with short brown beard with arm around woman in black shirt with short brown hair shown from the back

What It Means to be Loved

January 28, 2023
mountains in dark with purple sky and lines of white light scattered throughout
mountains in dark with purple sky and lines of white light scattered throughout

Fractal of Blessings for Healing

January 15, 2023
three candles glowing orange yellow in the dark
three candles glowing orange yellow in the dark

Tevet: A Liberation in Knowing

December 30, 2022
nine candles lit against black background
nine candles lit against black background

First Hanukkah Without Mom

December 25, 2022
person standing small on rocky land beneath blue sky full of stars
person standing small on rocky land beneath blue sky full of stars

This is the Time

December 1, 2022
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Seed of Light

November 23, 2022
mountains sunrise fog clouds
mountains sunrise fog clouds

Adam v’Mayyim: The Prayer Becomes the Praying

November 20, 2022
autumn forest with path between trees and waning light
autumn forest with path between trees and waning light

Mar Heshvan

October 26, 2022

Bereishit

October 20, 2022
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lit candle, thick and white, next to white petal on wood table against black background

Let It Burn

September 29, 2022
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person with backpack on standing outdoors looking out onto a misty sky with blurry landscape in the distance

Devarim

August 28, 2022

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