Kohenet Meshacreret Amah (One Who Liberates Her People) aka, YA, (she/her) is from Brooklyn, NY by way of Puerto Rico. She brings 25 + years of experience supporting people at the crossroads of transformation. She creates decolonial frameworks through multidimensional rituals & teachings. Her prophetic practice integrates divination, energy work, mixed media poetry, & herbal medicine. She is a Jewish priestess initiated through the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. She has been certified in strategies for trauma awareness and resilience by the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding.

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You can find video versions with captions and ASL on our youtube channel. Thank you Erin Sanders-Sigmon and Idy Fass for doing the ASL this month!!!

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Show Notes

Tevet Conversation:

Interview:

This Way to Olam haBa:

Song:

Hadar Cohen (she/her) is a Mizrahi feminist multi-media artist, healer and educator. She is a Jewish mystic who works to build decolonial frameworks for worshiping God. Hadar teaches Jewish scripture and embodied practices through her own mystical devotional school called Malchut. She is an artist and her mediums include performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound and ritual. Check out her work at hadarcohen.me and @hadarcohen32.

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You can find a video version with captions on our youtube channel. ASL version coming soon. 

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Show notes:

Kislev: The third month in the Hebrew year. Kislev means Pocket Heart. ❤️

Learn more about Sheikh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje at ibrahimbaba.org

Shavuot: Holiday in the Hebrew month of Sivan that commemorates receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai

Moda Ani: The feminized Hebrew for Modeh Ani, the prayer that is said upon waking.

Rabbi Jill Hammer is an author, teacher, and one of the founders of the Kohenet Institute. One of her many books is called Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams. https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/undertorah

Jonah Aline Daniel is a Jewish chandler and ritualist who wrote about Kislev in the first planner that we made. Learn more about Jonah’s work at www.narrowbridgecandles.org

Interview with Hadar Cohen—

Hazan: Spiritual Prayer Leader, cantor

Sephardim: Jews from the Mediteranean including parts of northern Africa and southern Europe.

Allepo: City in Syria, Jews lived there from as early as the 5th century

Ladino: Language of Sephardim, primarily Old Spanish with elements from other old romance languages and enriched by Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.

Kabbalah / Kabbalists: Literally meaning “Receiving,” a Jewish mystical tradition developed in 12th century Spain. Drawing upon earlier mystical traditions including the Sefer Yetzirah, it offers a tree of life with ten unique “emanations” or sephirot that map between the eternal source and the material world. Kabbalists also use the Hebrew letters and Gematria to make meaning and see into deeper layers of everyday ideas and events.

Mizrahim: Literally meaning “east,” can refer to Jews from Mesopatamea and parts of northern Africa. While it was originally coined as a derogatory term in the 50’s, it has been reclaimed by many Arab Jews as a political identity.

Knesset: legislative state body of Israel

IDF: Israel Defense Forces

Neviah: the Prophetess/Prophetexx archetype. “Hadar HaNeviah shel Shechinah” means “Hadar, the Prophetess of god’s Indwelling Presence.”

Olive Meditation and This Way to Olam HaBa —

The state of Israel has uprooted tens of thousands of olive trees, in part to build the Apartheid wall in the West Bank and to build illegal (by international standards) settlements. Let’s call in the essence of Olive and annoint ourselves in community to do this reparative work:

Donate to: tinyurl.com/plantanolivetree

Tzedakah: often translated as “charity,” the root word actually means “justice”

Double chai: The number 18 is associated with the Hebrew word “chai” which means life. 36 = double chai.

“To Know the Dark” is a poem by Wendell Berry, music by Katie Hicks

This month's guest is Yishaq (also known as Yitshaq or Isaac) Ofori Solomon. Yishaq Ofori Solomon (he/him) is an educator, student, writer, and journalist who is a Black African (Beta Yisraelim and Musta’arabi) Queer Jew. They spend much of their time building communities based on solidarity. Here he shares much that is dear to him as a child of intersecting and rich Black, African, and Jewish Diaspora experiences.

Find Yishaq’s writing at https://www.heyalma.com/author/isaac-ofori-solomon/

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Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-PzunkdbVA4yrhBChIXY8od06z8POB4t

Show Notes:

High Holidays or High Holy Days - Holidays that mark the beginning of the Jewish year, including Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), as well as Sukkot (Harvest Festival), Shemini Atzeret (day after Sukkot), and Simchat Torah (where we roll the Torah back to the beginning).

Slow down  / The Mother's Response - song by Riv Shapiro, https://soundcloud.com/user-828425998/slow-down-the-mothers-response

Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement, many Jews observe by fasting for 25 hours, praying for forgiveness and to be written in “The Book of Life” for the coming year.

Sukkot - A joyous harvest festival that lasts for 8 days, when many Jews build a temporary outdoor structure called a Sukkah. Prayers for rain are traditional during this time, and it is also traditional to invited the “ushpizim” or beloved ancestors into the Sukkah to join in the celebration

TIshrei - The first month of the Jewish calendar, during which the High Holy Days occur.

Cheshvan - The second month of the Jewish calendar.

Sigd - "Day of Prostration," Beta Yisrael holiday on the last day of Cheshvan.

Ashkenazi - A term referring to diasporic Jews who trace their lineage back to medieval Jewish communities in the west of Germany, or eastern Europe.

Nun - The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, pronounced like the English letter “n”

Nes נס - Hebrew word meaning “miracle”

Beta Yisrael - also known as “House of Israel” or “Community of Israel,” or Ethiopian Jews who lived for many centuries between the modern-day Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia, most of whom immigrated to Israel in the late 20th century.

Ashkenormativity - The centering and privileging of Jews of Eastern European descent

Maghreb - The western part of North Africa and the Arab world, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia

Qessim - the Kohenim of Beta Yisrael

Nusach - language or tunes of specific lineage of prayer

SWANA - a decolonial word for the South West Asian/ North African region in place of “Middle East,” “Near East,” “Arab World,” or “Islamic World” (swanaalliance.com)

Karaites - a pre-rabbinic Jewish people largely from Egypt and Iraq

B'nei anusim - the children of the Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the insquisition

Conversos - (see above)

Am Yisrael - People of Israel

"Wise Ones," song written by Natanya Apfelbaum. You can find a recording of the original version on the  Ancestralization album, track 20:

https://jewishancestralhealing.bandcamp.com/album/ancestralization

In this kick-off episode, our guest is Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, contributor for the month of Tishrei. Lukaza (They/She) is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who is based between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. Their work has been exhibited/performed at museums, galleries, homes and in the streets. Lukaza has their BFA from California College of the Arts and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. www.lukazabranfmanverissimo.com

Watch this episode with captions and/or ASL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-PzunkdbVA4yrhBChIXY8od06z8POB4t

Olam HaBa - “The World to Come”

Tishrei - The first month of the Hebrew calendar.

Rosh Chodesh - “Head of the month,” the first day of a new moon cycle and beginning of a new month in the Hebrew calendar.

Learn more: https://www.dreamingtheworldtocome.com/rosh-chodesh

Days of Awe - The ten days between Rosh Hashanah, the first of the year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, sometimes referred to as days of repentance and renewal.

Sukkah - A temporary structure built for the week of Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival

Lulav - A bundle of three small tree branches or boughs used in traditional Sukkot ritual

Find Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo’s work at their website:

www.lukazabranfmanverissimo.com

The Sunday School that Lukaza went to is the Sholem School. You can find out about what the school is up to currently at their website:

https://www.sholem.org/

Sefer Yetzirah - The “Book of Creation,” a mystical text likely dating back to 400-600 CE and considered by many the foundational text for Jewish mysticism.

Learn more about plant associations for each month: https://www.dreamingtheworldtocome.com/plant-associations

The estuary that is being restored in Olympia is the Deschutes Estuary.

Learn more: https://deschutesestuary.org/

The song "Creation" is by Taya Mâ Shere, www.taya.ma

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