Working Women in Ritual Frontier Land
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Soferet has a digital camera-- and what a difference it makes! Here is an article of hers worth checking out (they all are) followed below by my comment to her: Netivat Sofrut comments
--Ick!! Soferet prepping skins for parchment... proof that there is holiness in all things. Even bloody gory icky skins can become a precious sefer torah.
Maggid Sarah:
As a working woman maggid (maggidah) in the field, I also am constantly up against the choice of lying to purchase my work and ritual needs, or of learning to make them myself. So far I've chosen to make them rather than imbue my work with the whacked vibrations of "the Lie".
I carved a Yod last year and a woman trope student of mine just wrapped it in beautiful beads and made a matching bag to carry and protect it. Such a holy holy holy way to learn and be present in the world. I think we women are in this position specifically so that we are forced to OWN the process from our womanness (word?) and not to just inherit the system by rote. Can't tell you how many others this empowers in turn to roll up their sleeves and engage themselves in yiddishkeit-- is this why we are commanded to write our own sefer torah? So we have to personally engage the process?
What a powerful and awesome age we live in. Baruch HaShem!
Blessings to you Aviel for this work that you do, and great job with the digital pics-- what a difference that makes, eh?
A Collaborative Effort of Redemption for the Pesach Season:
Hand Carved Yod by Maggid Sarah Etz Alon, Beaded and Decorated, with Inner and Outer Bag by Judaic Artist Susan Jacobson of Eugene, Oregon
Ohhhh Susan, you are awesome! How beautiful this is, I can't wait to initiate it with a sefer torah-- what an honor!
Thank you!
Soferet has a digital camera-- and what a difference it makes! Here is an article of hers worth checking out (they all are) followed below by my comment to her: Netivat Sofrut comments
--Ick!! Soferet prepping skins for parchment... proof that there is holiness in all things. Even bloody gory icky skins can become a precious sefer torah.
Maggid Sarah:
As a working woman maggid (maggidah) in the field, I also am constantly up against the choice of lying to purchase my work and ritual needs, or of learning to make them myself. So far I've chosen to make them rather than imbue my work with the whacked vibrations of "the Lie".
I carved a Yod last year and a woman trope student of mine just wrapped it in beautiful beads and made a matching bag to carry and protect it. Such a holy holy holy way to learn and be present in the world. I think we women are in this position specifically so that we are forced to OWN the process from our womanness (word?) and not to just inherit the system by rote. Can't tell you how many others this empowers in turn to roll up their sleeves and engage themselves in yiddishkeit-- is this why we are commanded to write our own sefer torah? So we have to personally engage the process?
What a powerful and awesome age we live in. Baruch HaShem!
Blessings to you Aviel for this work that you do, and great job with the digital pics-- what a difference that makes, eh?
A Collaborative Effort of Redemption for the Pesach Season:Hand Carved Yod by Maggid Sarah Etz Alon, Beaded and Decorated, with Inner and Outer Bag by Judaic Artist Susan Jacobson of Eugene, Oregon
Ohhhh Susan, you are awesome! How beautiful this is, I can't wait to initiate it with a sefer torah-- what an honor!
Thank you!
posted by Maggid Sarah @ 3:32 PM
1 Comments:
At 4:05 PM,
Curt Hopkins said…
Lord have mercy. The woman who made that must be a freaking Hebraic genius.
Regards,
A Perfectly Dispassionate Observer
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