Full Moon Shabbat Festival: Tu B’Av: The Jewish Holiday of Love

Evening Flow

5pm: Arrival

Settle into the garden and ground into the magic of Tu B’Av

5.15: Botanical Natural Dye Project

Create your own intuitive botanically printed wall hanging, using fresh plants from the garden on organic linen with Ora Levi.

6.15: Shabbat Potluck Dinner & Song

Share a nourishing potluck meal with poetry, guided dinner prompts, soulful song, and heartfelt conversation around this ancient love ritual.

7.15: Heart Meditate & Full Moon Dance

Tune into your heart with a guided meditation led by Mitten & Jenna, then move barefoot under the full moon with Dance Guide Rachael Brody

8pm: Closing Circle

WEAR WHITE
Nearly 3,000 years ago, the daughters of Jerusalem would dress in white and dance in the vineyards beneath the full moon—celebrating life, love, and the renewal that follows loss.

Tu B’Av, the Festival of Love, emerges from the ashes of destruction in the first half of the month of Av. In this fire-sign month of the Aryeh (Lion), the flames of sorrow transform into the fire of passion and courageous love.

Tu B’Av is also an ancient agricultural holiday—when olives swelled with oil and white squill flowers bloomed across the fields. Women wore white to merge with the blossoms as they danced, embodying the abundance of the season.

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, white symbolizes Chesed, the radiant flow of loving-kindness from the Divine. Let us don white and remember: we, too, are vessels of that sacred love.

Pre-registration is a must!

(Ora needs an accurate number of participants ahead of time so she can prepare enough materials and dyes!)

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