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      The Jewish Monastic Project, A Concept Paper
Home-leaving, Beyond Nazir, Queering Normativity, and the Jewish Monastery
 
      
       
      
      Barur
Barur — “clear,” “evident,” or “refined” in Hebrew — traces a personal story of inheritance, loss, and return. Beginning with a forgotten set of candlesticks gifted to the author’s mother during the intifada, it unfolds into a meditation on memory, faith, and reclamation—between religious and secular, Israel and diaspora, ancestral and emergent. Through the intertwined threads of trauma, prayer, and deep time, the essay asks what it means to awaken to our lineage that is ever renewed.
 
      
      Ki Hai: Khuma Drops Her Sleeve, A Hebrew Koan
The Talmud court drama oft-referred to as controversy about modesty, here interpreted as a Kabbalistic map to restore the Celestial Broken Vessel - Awareness itself.