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"Shavout" by Moritz Daniel Oppeneheim, 1880
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Month of Sivan: This summer, let truth be your shield

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude May 12, 2021
D’li the water bucket (AKA Aquarius), the astrological sign of the Jewish people, in a 1322 German prayerbook.
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Month of Iyar: Lighting the way to soul healing

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude April 13, 2021April 13, 2021
D’li the water bucket (AKA Aquarius), the astrological sign of the Jewish people, in a 1322 German prayerbook.
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Month of Nisan: Resetting our spiritual clocks

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude March 16, 2021March 15, 2021
Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
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Month of Adar: Milk the magic for all it’s worth

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 16, 2021
D’li the water bucket, AKA Aquarius, the sign of the Jewish people, in a 1322 German prayerbook.
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Month of Shevat: Amid the chaos, you’ll get by with a little help from your friends

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude January 18, 2021January 19, 2021
D’li the water bucket (AKA Aquarius), the astrological sign of the Jewish people, in a 1322 German prayerbook.
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The ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn: good for the Jews?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude December 18, 2020December 17, 2020
Sagittarius, the ruling sign of the month of Kislev, from a 1322 German prayer book.
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Month of Kislev: Two eclipses and a short, sharp shock

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude November 16, 2020December 14, 2020
Akrav (AKA Scorpio), ruling sign of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, as drawn in a 1322 German Shavuot prayer book.
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Month of Cheshvan: Transforming bitterness into greatness

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude October 19, 2020October 19, 2020
A 1961 Israeli postal stamp depicting Libra, the sign of the month of Tishrei. (Photo/Flickr-Karen Horton CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Month of Tishrei: In this new year, ‘aleph’ is for ‘action’ 

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude September 21, 2020September 24, 2020
"Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem" by Francesco Hayez, 1867
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Month of Av: How can this summer get any worse?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude July 27, 2020

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