Tag: Pesach

  • Heshvan: Closing the Cycle

    Leaves fall and fields turn pale. Days grow shorter and cooler. The last vestiges of summer light and plenty fade away, and the earth lumbers towards the sleepy months of winter. The rhythms of Creation are inescapable. The month Heshvan is sometimes called Mar-Heshvan—mar meaning “bitter”, an allusion to the absence of holidays in the month, but perhaps a…