Rosh Chodesh Tammuz - Illuminating the Darkness - with Jenna Zadaka

Oh, I love tender topics.

Let's go.

I believe

every month has a cosmic invitation experience to sink into.

And I believe this month is a corridor, an opening, and a portal into grief, grief work, the art of grieving, crying.

And that would be my choice of topic.

But if...

No, I love this.

I love this.

It's

super aligned with this month and especially what happens in this month.

It's not really a holiday, but it's a point.

of real difficulty for the Jewish nation.

And I think grief is something that is a little bit overlooked.

I think the fruits of grief is really overlooked.

And so what happens is we try to stay positive, right? And we sometimes have a little positive bypassing, which I have done in the past for many years.

And we miss out on when we delve a little bit into grief and what's there for us.

So I would love to talk about this.

I

agree.

I think our culture at large doesn't know what to do with grief and they largely push it into a dark, isolated room and there's no... collective grieving space, but Judaism really has mastered the art of grieving.

And it's one of our gifts to the world.

I think we not only have sacred poetry around grieving and specific prayers and rituals, but we have this whole month of sacred time that To be with our grief, to process it, to let it move because grief unprocessed that becomes stagnant, becomes all sorts of unhealthy things like chronic illness or sudden bursts of anger or detachment to the body.

And this is a month to come back into the visceral sensation of grief.

And as you said, can we have the fruits of the grieving? Yeah.