Chava Green // The Hasidic Feminist

Tag: god

  • Becoming a Vessel of Light

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    I woke up this morning to a blanket of white, pure snow over our Philadelphia street, the light of Chanukah budding in my home, and the horrific news of the terrorist attack in Australia. The daughter of the Rabbi killed was a student in my class last year. I felt broken. I crawled back into…

  • Our Father, Our King. But Where is G-d, Our Mother?

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    While listening to a song in the car about “Aveinu She’b’shamayim,” which means “Our Father in Heaven”, my six year-old asked me to translate. I told him it was talking about Hashem as our Tatty (Father in Yiddish). He was silent for a bit and then he asked me, “So, where is the mommy Hashem?”…