Rosh Chodesh

Ketzirah on January 31st, 2011

I’m very excited to announce that beginning this month, I’ll be leading Rosh Chodesh services at OneShul.org.  OneShul is a cyber-shul, and if that sounds nuts — trust me it works!  The services are streamed live, and you participate via a chat feature.  I attended their first ever Kabbalat Shabbat this past friday and was pleasantly [...]

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Ketzirah on November 21st, 2010

(cross-posted on Punk Torah) ~This is an excerpt from the Tevet Wheel of the Year Guide for Rosh Chodesh.  Subscribe for free to receive the entire guide~ How do we know the difference between good and bad judgment?  How do we know the choices we make are the right ones?  What do we allow to [...]

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Ketzirah on August 16th, 2010

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Wheel of the Year Guides I’ve been creating for the past three years.  I love doing them because I learn a lot every time, but they really are a lot of work.   My feeling when I started is that they were high effort enough that [...]

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Ketzirah on April 5th, 2010

This is an excerpt from the Iyyar Rosh Chodesh Guide.  Subscribe today to receive the full guide. The High Priest (Hierophant) is a connection between the manifest world of man (Emperor) and the pure world of Divine fire (Lovers).  This could also be seen as the connection between Assiyah (Earth) and Aztilut (fire).  The Kohen [...]

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Ketzirah on March 7th, 2010

~Excerpt from Nisan 5770 Rosh Chodesh Guide – Subscribe today for the full Guide ~ With Nisan we leave the lunacy of Adar behind.  Rosh Chodesh Nisan is the New Year of Kings, so it makes complete sense that the Emperor (קֵיסָר) is the card for the month.   In the Transparent Tarot, the image is [...]

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Ketzirah on October 26th, 2008

Excerpt from the Peeling a Pomegranate Rosh Chodesh Guide for Cheshvan. —————— Cheshvan is often called “mar cheshvan,” which means bitter Cheshvan.  The month has no official holidays and also, traditionally, marks events such as the biblical flood and the death of Rachel the Matriarch.  There were also other historical tragedies this month, which add [...]

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Ketzirah on July 5th, 2008

The recent US cattle recall, which was the largest in U.S. history, has clearly set my course for the next several months.  I had already determined that Rosh Chodesh Elul would be the next seder that I would write, but I had been wavering.  The first of Elul is considered to be one of the [...]

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