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At the Confluence of a New Month and an Old War

This piece was written for Glacier Jewish Community ~ my end of week message for the Jewish community I serve in the Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana. This week we welcome the Hebrew month of Shvat. On the ‘טו, tet-vav (pronounced “tu”), 15th of this month, we celebrate the Jewish new year for the trees. Even in the bitter cold,…

Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat

The month of Sh’vat begins, this year, on the evening of Sunday, January 2nd. Rosh Chodesh is an opportunity to welcome the new month. It is also a Jewish holiday that has long be linked, by agadah (Jewish story), to women. This year the months of the Hebrew and the Gregorian calendars are fairly well aligned, however, the Hebrew month…