At the Becoming 2010 Membership Retreat we made prayer beads. Thankfully, I knew we were doing this in advance, so I had time to think about what I wanted to do. I’ve thought about doing prayer beads before, but never actually done it. I’ve considered making prayer beads of the whole morning prayer service, or [...]
On the 13th of Kislev, 5770 (November 30th, 2009) an amazing light left the manifest world. I don’t believe this light has disappeared, just been transformed into something new, amazing, and hopefully free of pain.
There’s been lots of questions about what receiving smicha (ordination) as a Kohenet means to me. It’s harder to answer than you’d think. But I do want to talk about this. The most common questions are: Do you feel different? Now what?
The final week of Kohenet was a whirlwind. The training weeks are a total immersion in liminal space. Each day feels like a week, and yet by Thursday — you can’t believe it’s almost over. The experience was even more amplified this time because it was my last training week and Shabbat meant smicha. The [...]
I’ve been announcing this all week on Twitter and Facebook , but realized I never announced it here! In celebration of my smicha as a Kohenet, and the smicha of the first cohort, I’m giving away a copy of the Kohenet Prayerbook (siddur) and Holly Shere’s new album. You still have time to enter your [...]
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