Category: Events, Classes, Publications
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Upcoming cemetery measuring workshop in Mount Carmel Cemetery
Unfortunately I’m not able to be in New York this year, but my fellow feldmesterins Sarah Chandler aka Kohenet Shamirah of Shamir Collective, Rabbi Noam Lerman, Eleonore Weill and Chelsea Simon are going to be back in Mount Carmel cemetery for our annual Elul cemetery measuring workshop. Tickets are available here. And you can watch…
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Mourning women and cemetery prayer leaders in interwar Vilna
This is just a short post to share this incredible photo, featured on p 23 of the New York Yiddish Forverts Jan 27, 1924. The Yiddish caption reads “These are the “zogerkes” and “klog muters” of the Vilna cemetery. When they are paid, they cry and recite tkhines (yiddish prayers) on behalf of the women…
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Cemetery and grave measuring ritual guides
I’m sharing here my latest, updated ritual guides which have recently been published on Ritualwell. Guide to cemetery and grave measuring as practices to connect with the dead all year round, especially in times of crisis: https://ritualwell.org/blog/cemetery-grave-measuring-and-soul-candle-making-a-ritual-guide/ Guide to cemetery measuring and soul candle making for Yom Kippur: https://ritualwell.org/blog/yom-kippur-cemetery-grave-measuring-and-soul-candle-making-a-ritual-guide/ Also, for any Yiddish (or Swedish!)…
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New online talk with the Workers Circle
The month of Elul has arrived, and with it the season of feldmestn (cemetery measuring), geyn af keyver oves (visiting ancestral graves) and raysn kvorim (lamenting over graves). I have a few new materials to share this month, as well as my first guest post and two new ritual guides. For now, if you are…
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