Water Magic: Shmini Atzeret and the Power of Flow 3/17

October 3, 2026

4:00 PM

Spirituality & Wellbeing

Water Magic: Shmini Atzeret and the Power of Flow

Luria Academy

664 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA

Shmini Atzeret is the Jewish calendar’s celebration and commemoration of water, rain, and cycles of flow. At the end of Sukkot, we will gather to honor the role of water in our lives, in the natural world, and in our sacred traditions.

Join The Neighborhood and Beit Kohenet for a special gathering in the Sukkah led by Rabbi Jill Hammer with sacred musicians Shoshana Jedwab, where we will mark Shmini Atzeret with songs, storytelling, group learning, and water rituals.

This event will take place as part of Sukkot in The Neighborhood – a festival of Jewish arts, culture, and spirituality taking place in an art installation Sukkah in Brooklyn. Read the full lineup here.

If cost is an obstacle to your participation in this event, please reach out to info@theneighborhoodbk.org to request an accommodation.

Featuring

Rabbi Jill Hammer

Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author, scholar, ritualist, poet, dreamworker and midrashist, is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and a co-founder of Beit Kohenet, a house of Jewish, mystical, earth-based, feminist seeking. Her new novel is called The Moonstone Covenant, and she is the author of Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreaming, Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah, The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership (with Taya Shere), The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons, The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, and The Book of Earth and Other Mysteries. She is also the author of academic articles, essays, and poems. She is the translator of The Romemu Siddur and of Siddur haKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook. She loves trees, stones, and the outdoors, and lives in Manhattan with her family.

Shoshana Jedwab

Shoshana Jedwab (she/her) is an award-winning Jewish educator, intuitive percussionist, and singer-songwriter. She has taught at the A.J. Heschel Middle School for over thirty years, where she serves as Jewish Life Coordinator.
As “Batshemesh,” she was a founding faculty member of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, using drumming, ritual theater, worship, and humor to guide exploration of Jewish texts, history, and ancestral practice. She now leads worship at Beit Kohenet and facilitates its Practical Mystics Circle.
Shoshana’s music blends ancestral tradition with contemporary embodied practice, featuring chants and songs that ground body and spirit. Her debut album I Remember (2016) and her 2018 single Where You Go have traveled from ceremonies to synagogues, weddings, and protests worldwide. Jewish Rock Radio named her one of the “Jewish Women Who Rock the Worship World.”

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