Kislev with Hadar Cohen

Dreaming the World to Come

Hadar Cohen (she/her) is a Mizrahi feminist multi-media artist, healer and educator. She is a Jewish mystic who works to build decolonial frameworks for worshiping God. Hadar teaches Jewish scripture and embodied practices through her own mystical devotional school called Malchut. She is an artist and her mediums include performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound and ritual. Check out her work at hadarcohen.me and @hadarcohen32.

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Show notes:

Kislev: The third month in the Hebrew year. Kislev means Pocket Heart. ❤️

Learn more about Sheikh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje at ibrahimbaba.org

Shavuot: Holiday in the Hebrew month of Sivan that commemorates receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai

Moda Ani: The feminized Hebrew for Modeh Ani, the prayer that is said upon waking.

Rabbi Jill Hammer is an author, teacher, and one of the founders of the Kohenet Institute. One of her many books is called Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams. https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/undertorah

Jonah Aline Daniel is a Jewish chandler and ritualist who wrote about Kislev in the first planner that we made. Learn more about Jonah’s work at www.narrowbridgecandles.org

Interview with Hadar Cohen—

Hazan: Spiritual Prayer Leader, cantor

Sephardim: Jews from the Mediteranean including parts of northern Africa and southern Europe.

Allepo: City in Syria, Jews lived there from as early as the 5th century

Ladino: Language of Sephardim, primarily Old Spanish with elements from other old romance languages and enriched by Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.

Kabbalah / Kabbalists: Literally meaning “Receiving,” a Jewish mystical tradition developed in 12th century Spain. Drawing upon earlier mystical traditions including the Sefer Yetzirah, it offers a tree of life with ten unique “emanations” or sephirot that map between the eternal source and the material world. Kabbalists also use the Hebrew letters and Gematria to make meaning and see into deeper layers of everyday ideas and events.

Mizrahim: Literally meaning “east,” can refer to Jews from Mesopatamea and parts of northern Africa. While it was originally coined as a derogatory term in the 50’s, it has been reclaimed by many Arab Jews as a political identity.

Knesset: legislative state body of Israel

IDF: Israel Defense Forces

Neviah: the Prophetess/Prophetexx archetype. “Hadar HaNeviah shel Shechinah” means “Hadar, the Prophetess of god’s Indwelling Presence.”

Olive Meditation and This Way to Olam HaBa —

The state of Israel has uprooted tens of thousands of olive trees, in part to build the Apartheid wall in the West Bank and to build illegal (by international standards) settlements. Let’s call in the essence of Olive and annoint ourselves in community to do this reparative work:

Donate to: tinyurl.com/plantanolivetree

Tzedakah: often translated as “charity,” the root word actually means “justice”

Double chai: The number 18 is associated with the Hebrew word “chai” which means life. 36 = double chai.

“To Know the Dark” is a poem by Wendell Berry, music by Katie Hicks