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 known in the Sefer Yetzirah as the month of anger. As we, the people who wrestle, continue to dismantle “light supremacy” and lift up and […]
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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 in the tradition of welcoming and honoring our loving ancestors. Receive daily audio interviews with spiritual leaders, artists, activists & visionaries on their journeys of […]
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 Baruch Frazier, Michi Ilona Osato, Dori Midnight, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Nomy Lamm, Chani Nicholas Editing by Aleksei WagnerMusic by Batya Levine ABOUT QUEER MORNING BLESSINGS […]
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, loss, upheaval, disorientation, hope, resistance, and resilience. Many of us find ourselves at sea, overwhelmed and longing for connection. In this time of social, racial, […]
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, and there is an idea that our soul wanders all night while we sleep and is restored to us upon awakening. If you have ever […]
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 bowls from the levant, to prekantes/spells, honey elixirs, and plant medicine of sephardic traditions, to the garlands of garlic and birch from eastern europe. The […]
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 hypervigilant body at ease Washing our hands helps us return to ourselves by washing away what does not serve. Wash your hands like you are washing 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 – we are welcoming friend, lover, shabbat, and/or G-d. I am in love with devotional liturgy — poems and prayers full of profound desire for connection, […]
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, ancestralization prayers, and work with Jewish ancestral plants as allies and supports – crafting talismans, healing tools and more.
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, deep, radically inclusive services from the eve of Rosh Hashanah through Ne’ilah, the closing of the gates on Yom Kippur. We are still unfolding into […]
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 a huge grove of bittersweet in our yard and then turned my tools to an old overgrown patch of daylilies and forsythia. My friends and […]
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 of her visions, and the patient questions made it easy to trust her quickly and eased the changes that were to come. Even if I […]
