Rishe Groner, at The Blogs

May 9, 2020, 10:59 PM

Being in the process with Sefirat Haomer

For those of us counting (it’s a ritual, try it), it’s been a month since Pesach. A month since we sat in our homes, many of us on our own, and drank and ate and sang songs of freedom, hoping...

May 1, 2020, 6:21 PM

Ritual or Routine?

We're seven weeks in. (to quarantine. not the Omer!) Maybe shorter, maybe longer. Depends where you are. When was the last time you went out, without a care in the world? Just going to buy a coffee, or waiting for the bus, or...

Apr 30, 2020, 1:10 AM

Chidon HaTanach: My Day of Independence

Photo of the top 16 contestants in the final round of the Chidon HaTanach in 2000. The author is second from right in the back row. Photo courtesy of Merav Fima Saidoff

Twenty years ago, today. I was one week into my first trip to this land, spellbound most of the time. I was fourteen years old, and I had spent most of my life feeling left out. Socially, spiritually, intellectually. Somehow, I...

Apr 24, 2020, 8:13 AM

Welcome Iyar, A Time for Healing

The New Moon has come. It's a powerful time. We made it through Pesach, despite our apprehension over doing it differently than ever before, and the spring is well and truly here. We're staring down our calendars, wondering what happens next....

Sep 29, 2019, 6:20 PM

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This Rosh Hashanah, we need to listen to Hannah’s feminist story

Hannah's prayer, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. (Wikipedia)

Hannah’s story schools the men who need to listen, instead of raising their own voices above the sound of the silent, broken-spirited, deeply prayerful woman

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Rishe Groner is the creator of The Gene-Sis, a post-Hasidic movement toward embodied experience and personal growth through Jewish mystical texts. Groner is a writer, strategist, marketer and teacher, and her work has appeared on Alma, JTA, Lilith, Tablet, The Wisdom Daily and on www.thegene-sis.com. Subscribe to Rishe's daily meditations and "Soulhacks" for Sefirat Ha'Omer here http://eepurl.com/bYVcdT

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