Jewish Magic

By Michele Lefler

Welcome to Jewish Magic, the go-to place when you don’t know where to go to find magic in Judaism. Michele Lefler of Living Moon Meditation is your Jewitch Extraordinaire, bringing several years and o... more

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The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.

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June 20, 2022 E:34 My Spiritual Journey
In this episode Michele tells you all about herself, her spiritual walk, and how she got to where she is today. Reminder: This is the last episode of Season 1. Season 2 will drop on 9/26/2022. There will be bonus episodes during the break.

Q & A
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20min
June 06, 2022 E:33 Sivan- The Month of Unity
The Month of Unity
In this episode, Michele discusses some of the magical correspondences to the month of Sivan.
Sources
Gemini (Sivan)
The Month of Sivan According to the Book of Formation
Quote of the Week
It is a lesson of Gemini, the twins, that polarity exists within us all the time. Therefore, as we enter this month, and always, let us not fall to the mistake of the mind that says, “I have done something negative, I am now negative,” or, “I have done something positive, so the totality of me is positive now and I don’t have to worry anymore.” Because if we truly understand this teaching, then we know that the greatness of the Light of our soul exists even at the time of great negativity, even at the time of great darkness, and vice versa. - Michael Berg
Jewitch Calendar
This week’s Parsha: Nasso
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 8:08 PM EST
Havdalah: 9:18 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Behaalotecha
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 8:11 PM EST
Light Holiday Candles: 9:21 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Q & A
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Haggadah for Witches
Omer Guide for Witches
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12min
May 23, 2022 E:32 Miriam the Water Witch
Miriam the Water Witch
In this episode Michele discusses a new look at Miriam and her role in the Exodus of the Hebrews.
Quote of the Week
Miriam, the drumming prophetess who danced at the shore of the Sea of Reeds, is like other prophetesses in the ancient world who used the drum to represent the rhythm of time and the heartbeat of the Divine Mother.9 Miriam combines the air-ripples of the drum with the waters of birth. According to rabbinic legend, Miriam is a midwife. In Nisan, she midwives us into the flow of time, and on Passover she shows to us the Divine face of dancer, drummer, musician, and healer. - Rabbi Jill Hammer
Jewitch Calendar
Rosh Chodesh Sivan is Tuesday May 31. Shavuot is Sunday June 5.
This week’s Parsha: Bechukotai
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:59 PM EST
Havdalah: 9:07 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Bamidbar
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 8:04 PM EST
Light Holiday Candles: 9:13 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Q & A
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Haggadah for Witches
Omer Guide for Witches
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
Services
Let’s Be Social
Instagram
Facebook
Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/sunshine
License code: 4UALOCHFHOGMO2R6
...more
11min
May 09, 2022 E:31 Iyar- The Month of Love & Light
Iyar- The Month of Love & Light
In this episode Michele discusses some of the magical correspondences to the month of Iyar.
Resources:
The Mysterious Hebrew Calendar
Spiritual Meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet Letters
Numbers Rabba
Iyar: The Month of Iyar According to Sefer Yetzirah
Quote of the Week
Iyar is a time of healing, development, and growth. This is a special time marked by ritual, like so many other sacred periods in the Hebrew calendar. Iyar allows us to create space for contemplation and integration, and prepare ourselves for the wisdom we’ll receive during Shavuot. The counting of the Omer marks a gradual shift from a time of freedom from slavery towards a time of freedom through our relationship with Torah. - Rabbi Rachel Rosenbluth
Jewitch Calendar
Pesach Sheini (second Passover) is Sunday May 15. Lag B’Omer is Thursday May 19.
This week’s Parsha: Emor
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:46 PM EST
Havdalah: 8:53 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Behar
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:53 PM EST
Havdalah: 9:00 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Q & A
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Haggadah for Witches
Omer Guide for Witches
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
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Let’s Be Social
Instagram
Facebook
Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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12min
April 25, 2022 E:30 Counting the Days
Counting the Days
In this episode Michele discusses what the omer is and why we count the Omer. She explains how this 49-day counting ritual helps us to delve into and develop our shadow and emerge from slavery at Passover and transform into someone with a true freedom mindset.
Quote of the Week
Like our ancestors in the Exodus story, we need a period of retraining our brains and embracing a new way of thinking. Enter the Counting of the Omer. Traditionally this was a time to count the forty nine days between the barley and wheat offerings in the mishkan (tabernacle) and later the Temple. The omer measure of barley was offered on the second day of Passover and the omer measure of wheat was offered fifty days later on Shavuot (thus the counting of 49 days or seven weeks). - Michele Lefler
Jewitch Calendar
Rosh Chodesh Iyar is Sunday April 30 and Monday May 1.
This week’s Parsha: Achrei Mot
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:32 PM EST
Havdalah: 8:36 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Kedoshim
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:39 PM EST
Havdalah: 8:45 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Q & A
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Haggadah for Witches
Omer Guide for Witches
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
Services
Let’s Be Social
Instagram
Facebook
Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
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12min
April 11, 2022 E:29 Personal Reflections on the Passover Seder
Personal Reflections on the Passover Seder
In this episode Michele discusses some of her personal reflections around the central ritual of Passover- the Seder.
Quote of the Week
The exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day. - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Jewitch Calendar
Passover begins the evening of Friday April 15. Counting the Omer begins on the evening of Saturday, April 16.
Candle lighting time for Shabbat is Friday evening at 7:17 PM EST. Candle lighting time for the second night of Passover is Saturday evening at 8:20 PM EST. Havdalah to end the holiday will be Sunday evening at 8:21 PM EST.
Candle lighting time for Shabbat ending Passover is Friday evening at 7:24 PM EST. Havdalah to end Shabbat will be Saturday evening at 8:28 PM EST.
Jewitch Torah Study
Jewitch Book Recommendation
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivkah Galchen
Q & A
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Haggadah for Witches
Omer Guide for Witches
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
Services
Let’s Be Social
Instagram
Facebook
Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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...more
19min
March 28, 2022 E:28 Nisan- Leadership + Redemption
Quote of the Week
On the first day of Nisan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), two weeks before the Exodus, G‑d showed Moses the crescent new moon, instructing him regarding the setting of the Jewish calendar and the mitzvah of sanctifying the new month. This ushered in the first Jewish month and commenced the lunar calendar that Jews have been following ever since. It was the first mitzvah ( given to the newly born nation of Israel, even before the exodus from Egypt.- Chabad.org
Nisan- Leadership + Redemption
In this episode Michele discusses some of the magical correspondences to the month of Nisan.
The Name Nisan
Midrash Numbers Rabba
Spiritual Meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet Letters
Jewitch Calendar
Rosh Chodesh Nisan begins the evening of Friday April 1 and ends on Saturday April 2.
This week’s Parsha: Tazria
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:02 PM EST
Havdalah: 8:04 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Metzora
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 7:10 PM EST
Havdalah: 8:12 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Jewitch Book Recommendation
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Bloom
Q & A- 00:17:25
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Haggadah for Witches
Omer Guide for Witches
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
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Let’s Be Social
Instagram
Facebook
Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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...more
17min
March 14, 2022 E:27 Purim, Witches, and Jews, Oh My!
Quote of the Week- 00:01:09
Esther’s name comes from the goddess Ishtar or Asherah, and reminds us that, like older mythic figures such as Inanna, Esther descends into the underworld (in her case, the king’s harem) in order to save life. This descent into the underworld is like the sap’s hiddenness within the tree or nature’s hiddenness during winter—there must be a period of darkness in order for life to re-emerge. - Rabbi Jill Hammer
Purim, Witches, and Jews, Oh My!- 00:01:50
The Purim Spiel you’ve never heard before!
Jewitch Calendar- 00:12:53
Purim begins at sundown on March 16 and ends March 17.
This week’s Parsha: Tzav
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 6:48 PM EST
Havdalah: 7:48 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Shimini
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 6:55 PM EST
Havdalah: 7:56 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Jewitch Book Recommendation- 00:14:34
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
Q & A- 00:17:25
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
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Let’s Be Social
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Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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...more
20min
February 28, 2022 E:26 Adar- The Month of Good Fortune
Quote of the Week- 00:01:09
As the holiday of Purim approaches, just as Haman’s evil plans were thwarted and turned into a celebration of triumphant joy for the Jews, so may all of our tragedies today be turned into a great salvation of “light, gladness, joy and honor.” ~ Rabbi David Samson
Adar- The Month of Good Fortune- 00:01:34
In this episode Michele discusses some of the magical correspondences to the month of Adar.
The Month of Adar According to Sefer Yetzirah
Adar- Pisces
Adar Meaning
Midrash: Numbers Rabba
Complete Jewitch Wheel of the Year
Jewitch Calendar- 00:06:08
Rosh Chodesh Adar 2 is Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4.
This week’s Parsha: Pekudei
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 5:32 PM EST
Havdalah: 6:33 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Vayikra
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 5:40 PM EST
Havdalah: 6:41 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Jewitch Book Recommendation- 00:07:38
Hebrew Magic Amulets: Their Decipherment and Interpretation by T. Schrire
Jewitchy News- 00:09:51
Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim
Jewish federations umbrella releases new document adding gun reform and LGBTQ advocacy back to policy priority list
Q & A- 00:11:26
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
Everyday Magic Podcast
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Email Michele
Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
Shop
Services
Let’s Be Social
Instagram
Facebook
Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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...more
14min
February 14, 2022 E:25 Thoughts on the Jewish Calendar, Wheel of the Year, & Shabbat
Quote of the Week- 00:01:07
The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon. - Joshua Cohen
Wheel of the Year & Shabbat- 00:01:27
In this episode, Michele discusses her search for the perfect visual representation of the Wheel of the Year and why she loves Shabbat so much.
Jewitch Calendar- 00:06:58
This week’s Parsha: Ki Tisa
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 5:16 PM EST
Havdalah: 6:17 PM EST
Next week’s Parsha: Vayakhel
Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 5:24 PM EST
Havdalah: 6:25 PM EST
Jewitch Torah Study
Jewitch Book Recommendation- 00:08:27
The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons by Rabbi Jill Hammer
Jewitchy News- 00:11:55
‘And Just Like That,’ a beleaguered series makes fans even angrier with a Holocaust joke
What the ‘They Mitzvah’ on ‘And Just Like That…’ Got Wrong About Queerness in Judaism
Savior? Monster? A Messianic Leader Rallies His Followers.
Q & A- 00:13:19
Do you have a Jewitchy question you’re itching to have an answer to? Send me an email and I may answer it in an upcoming episode. It might also become the topic of an upcoming episode. Questions can be sent to: [email protected]
Links
Podcast Home
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Support the Podcast
Jewitch Wheel of the Year Course
Patronage
Living Moon Mystery School
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Let’s Be Social
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Bad Witch Society
Theme Music Credits
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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License code: YO4DLLFA4A6DRAY3
...more
16min

FAQs about Jewish Magic:

How many episodes does Jewish Magic have?

The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.