Welcome to the month of Tevet! Tevet is often called “the month of contradictions” because while the word “Tevet” shares a root with “tov”, meaning goodness, this month is also […]
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Jewish Ancestral Healing Sukkot Summit
Register here for this free ancestral healing summit to hear an interview with Dori about Jewish Plant Magic. This free week long Jewish Ancestral Healing summit is a Sukkot offering […]
QUEER MORNING BLESSINGS / birkot hashachar
written by Dori Midnight & Randy Furash- Stewart with Una Aya Osato, Tourmaline, Shoshana Akua Brown, Binya Koatz, Hadar Cohen, Jhos Singer, Satya Zamudio, adrienne maree brown, Morgan Bassichis, Koach […]
HIGH HOLY DAYS IN PANDEMIC TIMES: finding awe in the unravel
with gratitude to collaborators Elan/a June Margolis, Annie-Rose London, contributing editors Rae Abileah and Morgan Bassichis, and to my teacher, Rabbi Jill Hammer 5780 has been wrought with profound change, […]
MORNING BLESSINGS/BIRKOT HASHACHAR
I am grateful my ancestors thought to create a prayer to bless the transition from sleep into waking. In the Talmud, it is said that sleep is 1/60th of death, […]
Garlic in our pockets: remedies and rituals from the jewish diaspora
Witches ConfluenceOctober 29- November 1 We will dream deep into the rich lineage of healing practices from throughout the jewish diaspora for protection and healing, from ancient amulets and incantation […]
wash your hands
We are humans relearning to wash our hands. Washing our hands is an act of loveWashing our hands is an act of careWashing our hands is an act that puts the […]
the persistent desire
Lecha Dodi is a Jewish liturgical song sung at dusk on Shabbat. The words Lecha Dodi mean “come my beloved.” The beloved in the text is mysterious and multitudinous – […]
JEWISH ANCESTRAL HEALING + PLANT MAGIC
We’ll begin Thursday evening with a sweet, joyful, accessible Passover seder and then dive into exploring ancestral lineage repair and ancestor reverence rituals rooted in Jewish tradition, including song, visioning practices, […]
hinenu: here we are
Last year I was part of midwiving a miraculous emergence of a radical, queer high holy day project in Western Mass called Nishmat Shoom. We weave traditionally non-traditional, reverently irreverent, […]
on CSAs (community supported abortion gardens), herbal abortion, and knowing our limits
Maybe it’s my aries nature, but I often channel my fire and rage into a project. Many years ago, after a second, pretty intense and devastating miscarriage, I tore up […]
D.F.
Dori is a total spiritual matchmaker, a celestial translator, a cosmic dreamweaver. She is the babely bubbe we all deserve. The grounding safety of truth, the kind and thoughtful story […]
