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air

• Daemon Musings
• Four Went into the Garden (Justin Lewis)
• Appeal to the Matriarchs (Leah Novick)
• Mountaintop (Alicia Ostriker)
• The Lower World: Shamanic Spirit-Animals (Jill Hammer)

av

• New Moon Ritual for Elul/The Maiden
• Two Shofar Rituals for the New Moon of Elul
• Ritual for the Grape Harvest
• The Shekhinah as Exile
• Ritual for Tu b'Av 5764/Aug. 2, 2004

cheshvan

• Our Mother Rachel and Mother Earth
• Our Mother Rachel and Mother Earth
• Autumn, the Dybbuk, and the Dance of Death
• Chanukah Ritual for the Seventh Night
• Accompanying the Queen
• Candlelighting Chant for Chanukah
• The Shekhinah in Cheshvan
• Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament
• Ceremony for 11 Cheshvan

earth

• Sabbatical Year 2007: How to Celebrate
• Earth Day 2007
• Genesis to Exodus: Remembering the Bones
• Six Principles of Tel Shemesh
• The Empty Field
• Meditation on a Stone
• Poem for Tu B'Shevat
• Trees in Ancient Jewish Lore (Gershon Winkler)
• The Red Heifer and the Cycle of Life and Death
• Days of Change: Solstices and Equinoxes (Jill Hammer)
• The Four Elements and the Four Seasons
• Listening (Diane Elliot)
• Spirit of Assiyah (Melissa Weintraub)

fire

• Seasons Going North
• Genesis to Exodus: Remembering the Bones
• Accompanying the Queen
• The Saga of the Shekhinah: Eighteen Stages
• Why We Salt Challah
• Lecha Dodi/Welcoming the Sabbath (Jay Michaelson)
• The Sabbath as a Journey through the Worlds (Jill Hammer)
• Conversations with a Flounder Before Shabbat (Diane Elliot)
• The Jewish Goddess(es) (Justin Lewis)
• The Volcano and the Covenant (Alicia Ostriker)

iyar

• Miriam's Matzah
• Shavuot, King David, and Ruth
• First Fruits Rituals
• Lag B'Omer and the Maypole
• Lag B'Omer Four Worlds/Five Souls Ritual
• Lag B'Omer/Basement Drum Circle (Jill Hammer)
• The Volcano and the Covenant (Alicia Ostriker)

news

• Everything is God: A Jewish Spiritual Woodstock
• Everything is God: A Jewish Spiritual Woodstock
• Sukkahfest at Camp Isabella Freedman!
• August Eco-Retreat
• The Jewish Book of Days
• Makom/JCC Drum Circle with Shoshana Jedwab

nisan

• Passover as an Initiation
• Orah Hi: A New Passover Hymn
• Counting the Omer/Passover and the Harvest
• Meditations for the Passover Seder
• Miriam's Matzah
• Omer Calendar of Biblical Women
• Counting the Omer: Abel and the Grain
• The Four Cups and the Four Winds
• New Passover Rituals
• Havdalah for the Spring Equinox
• Jethro the Shaman
• Tent Ritual for 1 Nisan
• Eating Meditation for Passover
• Ritual for Miriam's Cup and Elijah's Cup
• The Four Children as Aspects of Divinity
• The Four Children as Aspects of Divinity
• The New Year of Spring: A Ritual Fantasy
• Havdalah for the Spring Equinox
• Havdalah for the Spring Equinox
• Ritual for 1 Nisan (Jill Hammer and Shoshana Jedwab)

resources

• Six Principles of Tel Shemesh
• Havdalah for the Summer Solstice
• Ritual Consulting
• Tel Shemesh Recommended Weblinks
• A Bibliography of Earth-Based Judaism

shekhinah

• Our Mother Rachel and Mother Earth
• Accompanying the Queen
• The Empty Field
• Poem to the One in Nature
• Ritual for Esther, the Morning Star
• Costume Ritual for Spring Equinox/Purim
• The Shekhinah in Cheshvan
• The Saga of the Shekhinah: Eighteen Stages
• The Breath of Breaths: Chant of the Four Elements
• Song of the End and of the Beginning
• A Prayer to the Shekhinah (Alicia Ostriker)

shevat

• Purim and the Spring Equinox
• Annual Tel Shemesh Purim Play
• A Prayer for Tu b'Shevat
• How the Book of Esther Got into the Bible
• A Spring Purim Play
• Fifteen Psalms for the Trees
• Ritual for Esther, the Morning Star
• Costume Ritual for Spring Equinox/Purim
• Poem for Tu B'Shevat
• Dinah's Month: Poem for Adar Aleph
• Tu B'Shevat Seder of the Seasons
• Tu B'Shevat Seder of the Four Worlds
• The Trees' Praise

tammuz

• Letting Go and the Summer Solstice
• New Moon of Tammuz and Father's Day
• Teachings of the Summer Sun
• Miriam's Matzah
• A Jewish Summer Solstice Ritual
• Havdalah for the Summer Solstice
• The Shekhinah as Exile
• The Red Heifer and the Cycle of Life and Death
• Summer Solstice 2004/1 Tammuz 5764
• HaGaviyah/The Chalice (Shir-Yaakov Feinstein-Feit) (Song)

tevet

• Chanukah/Solstice: Thoughts for 2008
• Winter Solstice Take 2
• Chanukah and the Olive Harvest
• Chanukah Ritual for the Seventh Night
• Rituals for the Calendar New Year
• Ritual for the Sixth Night of Chanukah
• Jewish Winter Solstice Tales
• Jewish Winter Solstice Tales
• Festival of the Daughters
• Candlelighting Chant for Chanukah
• Chanukat haTekufah/Ritual for Chanukah and the Winter Solstice (Jill Hammer)
• Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament

theholyone

• The Empty Field
• The Breath of Breaths: Chant of the Four Elements
• On a Good Day (Alicia Ostriker)

tishrei

• Yom Kippur and Sustaining the Earth
• The Mystery of the Autumn Holy Days
• Seasons Going North
• Yom Kippur and the Autumn Equinox: A Comparison
• Sabbatical Year 2007: How to Celebrate
• The Jewish New Year is Sukkot?!
• Autumn Equinox Ritual at Camp Isabella Freedman
• Sukkot: Circling the Altar
• Ushpizin: Welcoming Guests for Sukkot
• Yom Kippur: The Shrine and the Wilderness
• The Ram, the Goat, and the Shofar
• Writing in the Book of Life
• Elul: A Time To Be Hollow
• Autumnal Poems for the Month of Elul
• The Circle of Simchat Torah
• Rain Ritual
• The Second Night of Sukkot
• Two Elul Poems
• A Story of Three Worms: Preparing for the Season of Earth
• Soul Candles
• Rosh haShanah

water

• Mourning for the Tsunami
• Rain Ritual
• The Second Night of Sukkot
• Waning Moon Invocation (Judith Laura)
• the face of the deep is heavy (Jill Hammer)
• HaGaviyah/The Chalice (Shir-Yaakov Feinstein-Feit) (Song)
• The Moon as Life's Cycle (Susan Berrin)
• Jewish Cycles of the Moon (Jill Hammer)
• Loss (Diane Elliot)