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Rosh Hodesh

Crescent moon and stars in a colorful, cloudy sky blending green, blue, and yellow hues.

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 Chodesh has become an occasion for Jewish women to gather for learning, ritual, and spiritual exploration, and to mark life passages. Rosh Chodesh 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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Audio/video shiviti meditation chant

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

New moon meditation

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Special Amidah for Iyyar, the month of healing

Two people sitting with eyes closed, appearing to meditate in a softly lit room.

“let harvest abound in the exile without end…”

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“the trees and we, too, did bloom”

A child sits on a tree branch, surrounded by foliage, in a sepia-toned scene.

They call this time, Mar, the “bitter” month.

They call this time, Mar, the “bitter” month.

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A poem about what the blast of the shofar does to bring us out of past and present

a young person blows a shofar

“The new moon is a new universe for women”

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“What exists there is unknown and yet, what is known is there are places to be born”

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