Birkat HaHammah Resources
Birkat HaHammah is a once-every-28 years event where the Jewish community celebrates the return of the sun to its original place in the heavens at the precise time and day of its creation. It is occurring April 8, 2009 – the morning of Erev Pesach. COEJL has created a Birkat HaHammah resource that we hope you find useful – www.BlesstheSun.org. It is also a wiki, which means you can contribute to it – please do (and you if you have trouble, contact me at Liore@coejl.org). The information available is vast, so I wanted to point out some exceptional resources:
- A local events listing, where you can post your community Birkat HaHammah event
- A video meditation/song put to solar images that can be used for teaching or contemplation
- Ways to connect Pesach with Birkat HaHammah (this overlapping will not occur for hundreds of years)
- Ceremonial Materials – ranging from traditional to an energy/environment focus
