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.)
“let harvest abound in the exile without end…”
“the trees and we, too, did bloom”
They call this time, Mar, the “bitter” month.
They call this time, Mar, the “bitter” month.
A poem about what the blast of the shofar does to bring us out of past and present
“What exists there is unknown and yet, what is known is there are places to be born”
Kiddush: Humanist liturgy
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