ONLINE ONLY With Lisa Rauchwerger

Iyar is a month between. Passover and Shavuot, Exodus and revelation, Slavery and covenant — receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai. Iyar is a month of counting: Counting the Omer from Pesach (middle of Nisan) through Iyar to the beginning of Sivan.

The 5th of Iyar is Yom Ha-atzma’ut, Israel’s Independence Day (today!) The 18th of Iyar is Lag Ba’Omer, a holiday of picnics and celebrating outsmarting the Romans, of archery and bonfires.

We will learn a little about the holidays of Iyar, and delve into the counting of the Omer, why we count and some mystical ways to make the counting a spiritual practice. 

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Rosh Chodesh is a program of Beth Am Women.