Tevet with Kohenet YA

Dreaming the World to Come

Kohenet Meshacreret Amah (One Who Liberates Her People) aka, YA, (she/her) is from Brooklyn, NY by way of Puerto Rico. She brings 25 + years of experience supporting people at the crossroads of transformation. She creates decolonial frameworks through multidimensional rituals & teachings. Her prophetic practice integrates divination, energy work, mixed media poetry, & herbal medicine. She is a Jewish priestess initiated through the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. She has been certified in strategies for trauma awareness and resilience by the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding.

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Show Notes

Tevet Conversation:

• Tevet: the fourth month of the Hebrew year
• Queen Tzimtzimai: a mysterious character mentioned one time in the Babylonian Talmud, said to have saved the only remaining piece of cinnamon bark in her storehouses
• Tzimtzum: the contracting/expanding nature of god, from kabbalistic teachings, said to have contracted at the beginning of time in order to make room for creation
• Judith/Yehudit: a woman warrior from the second temple period, who took decisive action to behead the general who threatened her people’s existence. From the Apocrypha.
• Chag HaBanot/Festival of Daughters: A north African festival celebrated on Rosh Chodesh Tevet, the seventh night of Chanukah.

Interview:

• Boricua: a term referring to people of Puerto Rican heritage, honoring the island’s indigenous Taíno heritage. Borikén was the original name of the Taíno population before Spanish conquistadors showed up.
• Nuyorican: a term referring to Puerto Ricans living in the New York area.
• T’shuvah: return
• Shomer Shabbat: “keeper of the sabbath” - in an orthodox sense, one who observes all the rules for observing Shabbat
• Lech Lecha: A Torah portion in which god tells Abraham to “go forth” or “go to yourself.”
• Halachah: Literally, “the way,” this refers to laws and ordinances that have evolved to regulate religious observance and daily Jewish life

This Way to Olam haBa:

• Shatzi Weisberger: the “people’s bubbe,” Shatzi died on Dec 1, 2022 at the age of 92. Learn more at https://www.autostraddle.com/shatzi-weisberger-the-peoples-bubbie-dies-at-92/

Song:

• Deep Watery Blue, written by Erin Daly. See a video of Erin and Nomy performing this song together in 2012 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-t1NlMapc. Hear more of Erin and Nomy’s music at https://doublehug.bandcamp.com/album/songs-and-spells-for-decolonizing-bodies