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I hope you like the new look and find the new features (when they are finished) helpful!
Carly
What a great term “Aspected Monotheism” is. I discovered this term this morning on my commute to work, and I had to take a few minutes to share this. Now, I need to be clear I did not invent this term — I found it an email I had saved to my Palm Pilot. My friend and fellow Jewitch Asherah Batyah, whose writing I’ve featured on this site in the past, came up with it.
She’s someone that I have a lot of respect for, and our paths seem to fairly parallel, so I learn a lot from her writing that is directly relevant for me.
“Aspected Monotheism” resonates with me as about the best, simple definition of my view of the Divine that could be given. I believe in one great source of Divine — but that there are aspects of that great whole that are presented to us to allow us to gain greater understanding, and that even we Humans are aspects of the Divine, in a way.
Thanks Asherah for my morning buzz!
Happy Sukkot all!
Sukkot is the big fall harvest holiday. We build “sukkahs” which are little huts that you are supposed to reside in for the week, to remember the times when we would live in the fields while harvesting. Like all Jewish holidays there’s about 100 layers to this, so that’s the super simple version. It’s nice to have this big happy festival just after Yom Kippur! It’s like saying, “Yes, we believe that we’ve been written in for prosperity and we’re going to say Thank you!”
We also give offerings of fruit and grain, and make prayers for water. Part of the ritual is to shake a lulav and etrog to the four directions. For those unable to get a lulav this year (there’s a shortage) you can use this handy lulav simulator.
We also welcome “honored ancestors” or Ushpizin into the sukkah. Traditionally these have been just the Patriarchs, Moses, Aaron, and Joseph. But needless to say this list has been expanded a bit to include the ladies, for the non-orthodox. It’s a time to honor and welcome the great ancestors of spirit.
And it means it’s time for me to actually write down my Peeling a Pomegranate meditation and share it!
How do you all celebrate Sukkot?
All personal vows we are likely to make, all personal oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, neither firm nor established. Let our personal vows, pledges and oaths be considered neither vows nor pledges nor oaths.
May you be released from vows to YHVH that you could not meet. May you be inscribed in the Book of Life as you deserve. May your new year be a propserous and happy one, and may we all find peace.
May you be inscribed in the Book of Life as you have asked. May you be judged by the meritts of your past and future. May your year be one of sweetness and happiness. May you find blessings as rich and plentiful as the seeds of the pomegranate.
L’shanah Tova.
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