1 hr 3 min

Sivan with Never Angeline North Dreaming the World to Come

    • Judaism

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/.



ASL version coming soon.

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dreamingtheworldtocome

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-PzunkdbVA4yrhBChIXY8od06z8POB4t

The Indwelling Dreams of Olam haBa planner is on super mega-sale for $18. Purchase at https://www.dreamingtheworldtocome.com/ while supplies last!

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:


Anti-trans bills: https://translegislation.com/
Generation Alpha: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbowieshousewife/video/7214557539453635883
https://www.tiktok.com/@cllr.little.brighouse/video/7214988473428675845
https://twitter.com/BrokenAngel85/status/1648184015248138240
How to fight back:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzge5/how-to-fight-anti-trans-bills-legislation-united-states-activism⁠
Support Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/
Support Transgender Law Center: ⁠https://transgenderlawcenter.org/support/⁠

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. 

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/.



ASL version coming soon.

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dreamingtheworldtocome

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-PzunkdbVA4yrhBChIXY8od06z8POB4t

The Indwelling Dreams of Olam haBa planner is on super mega-sale for $18. Purchase at https://www.dreamingtheworldtocome.com/ while supplies last!

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:


Anti-trans bills: https://translegislation.com/
Generation Alpha: 
https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbowieshousewife/video/7214557539453635883
https://www.tiktok.com/@cllr.little.brighouse/video/7214988473428675845
https://twitter.com/BrokenAngel85/status/1648184015248138240
How to fight back:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzge5/how-to-fight-anti-trans-bills-legislation-united-states-activism⁠
Support Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/
Support Transgender Law Center: ⁠https://transgenderlawcenter.org/support/⁠

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. 

1 hr 3 min