Kohenet

Carly (Ketzirah) on August 2nd, 2009

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?

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Carly (Ketzirah) on July 26th, 2009

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 [...]

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Carly (Ketzirah) on July 24th, 2009

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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