Never Angeline Nꙩrth (she/her), is an agender author, artist, and musician living in Olympia, WA. Her creative book-length works include Sea-Witch, Careful Mountain, and Sara or the Existence of Fire. Find her online at https://never.horse/.
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This podcast episode was edited by Kim Wayman and Nomy Lamm
Convo:
- Dori Midnight: a friend, collaborator and teacher, abolitionist, liturgist, and magical Jewish witch. Learn more: https://dorimidnight.com/
- Tree of Life: a cultural symbol throughout the world, here we are referencing a kabbalistic diagram of the many faces of the divine.
- Sefer Yetzirah: a very early Jewish mystical text from around the 4th century CE.
- Shekhinah: the Indwelling Presence of god in the physical world.
- Asherah Pole: a pre-Israelite symbol of the goddess, a tree or pole
- Ketubah: Jewish marriage contract
- B’rit Ahuvim: Lover’s covenant, an alternative to the Ketubah
Interview:
- Significance of the number 18: in gematria/Jewish numerology, 18 corresponds with the word chai which means life.
- Shavuot: The Festival of Revelation on the 6th of Sivan
- Isaac Luria: A rabbi who lived in Safed in the 16th century, he is known as the father of modern kabbalah
- Shabbos Bride: Shabbat is often compared to a bride or a queen (shabbos is the Ashkenazi/Yiddish pronunciation), who comes to join us and gives us an extra soul for the 25 hours of Shabbat
- The Dybbuk: a Yiddish play by S. Ansky written in 1914, about a bride who becomes possessed by the ghost of her beshert (meant-to-be love) on the day of her wedding.
- Dysphoria: discomfort, distress, dis-ease
- Sephirot: emanations of the divine on the kabbalistic tree of life
This Way to Olam haBa:
Song:
This is a new song that wormed its way into the world throughout the Omer counting period, just in time for Shavuot! For now it’s called the Ophanim song, in reference to biblical angels as described in Ezekiel.
