Purim High Council Prayer and Meditation Happening for Women

We are Inviting women from around the world to join the actual Jerusalem-based event via zoom (enabled by Shifra Hendrie who has offered her expanded zoom link for the occasion). And…
Sharing the nusach/script of the ceremony so you can prepare for the event and, if you are unable to join our Jerusalem ceremony, you can create your own High Council, either on your own or with friends.

Purim Invite 2025

AN INVITATION… To Women Far and Wide to Participate in a Ground-Breaking, Soul-Awakening Event: The 34th Annual “Purim High Council Prayer and Meditation Happening for Women” (that will also be available via Zoom) In this part of the world we are preparing for Sarah Yehudit’s 34th annual open-house Shushan-Purim-Dance-and-Learn-Seuda-for-Women featuring the Purim-High-Council-Prayer-and-Meditation-Ceremony. However, this Holy […]

RUACH HAKODESH, A PARTNERSHIP

In ruach hakodesh, the person who’s assuming the role of boots on the ground is the initiator and decision maker. They choose a goal, mission, problem or project and pursue it with action and prayer.

The Chinukh of Chanukka

Chanukka 5781 / 2020

This holiday is called Chanukka because it is training (chinukh) and practice for the future redemption. How so?

A Short Tribute to Etrog for Tu B’Shvat

The word for etrog (אתרוג) relates to the Hebrew root, רגג, which means, “to long and desire”; etrog corresponds to to the heart area, the center of conscious emotion and desire.

ZOT CHANUKKA: A TRIBUTE TO THE SHEKHINA

The kabbalists read into Chanukka’s eight days, a journey of progressive tikun down through the sefirot from Binah to Malchut, beginning and ending on a feminine note.

Chanukka and the Feminine

The deepening union between the Shekhina and HKBH occurs in a very different way on Chanukka than on any other day of the year.

On Chanukka Everyone’s a High Priest

When the High Priest lit the menorah his intention was actually a prayer, that the lights now kindled should impart to the people an even deeper understanding of what it means that G-d is one.

The Inner Search for Pure Oil

Our world view, our sense of truth, our vision of perfection, our vision of what’s possible… all this is tainted by our long years of exile and association with foreign cultures.

Chanukka, Greece and Democracy

There is no person or nation that does not have at least a miniscule sliver of holiness. Otherwise it could not exist.