Rosh Hodesh Shevat: Jan.-Feb.

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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Miriam’s Moon: A Shiviti Meditation

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“the trees and we, too, did bloom”

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“The new moon is a new universe for women”

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The Fifteenth of Shevat
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