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Rosh Hodesh Elul: Aug.-Sept.

Night sky with a crescent moon, stars, and colorful clouds blending from blue to gold.

The first of each Jewish month—the celebration of the new moon, its slender crescent barely visible in the night sky—is a day historically associated with women’s renewal and celebration. In recent decades, Rosh Hodesh has become an occasion for Jewish women to gather for learning, ritual, and spiritual exploration, and to mark life passages. Rosh Hodesh groups, meeting monthly, offer a women’s space in time. (Some men’s gatherings have begun as well, sometimes associated with kiddush levanah, celebrating the coming full moon.)

 

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“How do you steer this thing? / Which end is helm and which is the stern?”
small yellow boat floating on water
You want to leave in peace. / I want to write your name with love.
woman with backpack facing a wintry lake and mountains

Audio/video shiviti meditation chant

Full moon against a dark, star-filled night sky.

New moon meditation

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“The new moon is a new universe for women”

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A song for the new moon

Crescent moon in a twilight sky over a vast grassy plain, with distant mountain silhouettes on the horizon.

A reminder that we have Elul to return to ourselves, the people we have wronged, and each other

a moon is obscured by dark blue clouds

An invitation to open our hearts to prepare for the reflection of Elul

a straw hat with a black band sits in a field of wheat on a sunny day

A poem based on Psalm 27, highlighting a few additional requests from God

a child with short hair and earrings smiles, holding up and looking at a couple of cherries

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