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Rabbi Miriam's Cyberwell Newsletter March 2010
Rabbi Miriam's Cyberwell Newsletter March 2010
MIRIAM’S CYBERWELL
PO BOX 3931, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91359 PH. 310.281.3016
H T T P S : / / W W W. M I R I A M S C Y B E R W E L L . C O M M I R I A M @ M I R I A M S C Y B E RW E L L . C O M
IN THIS ISSUE:
TIKKUN MAGAZINE
WANDERING IN THE TO FEATURE ARTICLE BY RABBI MIRIAM IN
NOW: THEIR UPCOMING MARCH/APRIL ISSUE...
A Special Pre-Passover Event with LOOK FOR IT ON THE STANDS!
Rabbi Miriam
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EXPERIENCE
PASSOVER ANEW, THE
OLD WAY
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JEWISH SHAMANIC
HEALING
Dates now set for Walking Stick
Foundation’s Fourth 2-Year, 4-
Week Program
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ADAR: THE
COMPLICATED MOON Rabbi Miriam Maron, B.S.N., R.N., M.A.
Lecturer, Composer, Singer/Songwriter, Workshop and Retreat Leader,
OF JOY Private, Healing and Mentoring, Ritual and Life-Cycle Ceremonies,
continued on page 4 Jewish and Interfaith Services
Wandering in the Now:
A Special Pre-Passover Event of Learning, Music, and Story
with Miriam Maron, and Gershon Winkler with the musical accompaniment of Bogdan
Knezevich and Ryan Emhoff
Thursday evening, March 25, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Temple Beth Torah
7620 Foothill Road, Ventura, CA
Passover is not so much a celebration of the Jewish through that vast barren wilderness than for the
exodus from Egyptian bondage some 3300 years ago numerous miraculous feats performed on their behalf
as it is a commemoration of the most crucial phase in in preparation for their redemption from slavery.
the evolution of the Jewish people: the subsequent Obviously, what appears as a more important story
forty-year walkabout in the desert. So vital is the story and lesson, wrote the famous Jewish philosopher
of the desert trek that it occupies 75% of the narrative Rabbi Martin Buber, “is not the history of the exodus,
of the Torah, the most important body of sacred but the history of the wandering in the
wisdom for the Jewish people. More space is allotted desert” (Biblical Leadership, published in Israel and the
for the account of the ancient Israelites being led World: Essays in a Time of Crisis [Schocken:1948], p. 125).
one’s individuality, while also relating to and caring for the family or community. Wolf is the
keeper of moon medicine, of the gift that moon brings to us in each of its phases of unfolding,
of waxing and waning. And wolf calls to it, sings to it, knows when to welcome which moon gift
for which phase. Wolf is alone, yet very much connected with its pack.
The Benjamin archetype is a complicated one. He is born at the expense of his mother’s life.
Rachel unfortunately dies moments after giving birth to him, and with her last breath names
him “Son of my suffering” or – in Hebrew: Ben O’nee. His father, Jacob, immediately changes
his name to Ben Ya’meen, Hebrew for “Son of my right hand” referring to his deep admiration
of his beloved Rachel (Genesis 35:18)...
(First Samuel 9:16-17). He failed abysmally. This archetype would then seem to be about failure alone.
Yet, Ben’yamin makes an incredible comeback through the heroic acts of Esther and
Mordechai, two Ben’yaminites (Esther 2:5) who in the 5th century B.C.E. save the entire Jewish
population from total annihilation. In the end, the lone wolf returns to rescue the entire pack
and reintegrate itself into the family of the tribes. Ben’yamin teaches us that it is never too late.
Never. Regardless of your past. And that you can transform any situation, from suffering to
ecstasy, from sadness to joy, from hopelessness to faith, from failure to success (Esther 9:22).
M A R C H 2 0 1 0 E D I T I O N
MIRIAM’S
CYBERWELL