The Queen Yarin Library

Learn the Jewish year, from the inside

Judaism is not only information, it is a structure for living. The Hebrew calendar gives each month its own work, each festival its own question, and each season a different demand.

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13: Hebrew months

Illustrated guide to the Hebrew months of the Jewish year

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The Guide to The Jewish Year

The Jewish year is a cycle of twelve or thirteen lunar months, beginning with Tishrei and Rosh Hashanah, that pairs each season with a specific kind of inner work. Rather than a list of dates, it functions as a repeating structure of expansion and contraction, clarity and concealment, growth, reset and return.

Subjects

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Written by Yarin, an artist and teacher living in Israel, drawn from years of study in Torah, Chassidut, Kabbalah and feminine wisdom. Plain answers first, then depth.

The Hebrew month of Elul, the month of return before Rosh Hashanah

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Jewish Calendar & Time

The Hebrew calendar is the spine of this library. It is lunar and solar at once, it begins the year with reflection rather than resolutions, and it gives each month its own letter, sense, tribe and inner work.

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Feminine Rising, a series on women and Jewish spirituality

028 lessons

Women, Feminine Judaism & Embodiment

This is the wisdom most Jewish women were never taught: the moon as the feminine principle, Rosh Chodesh as the women's holiday, Shabbat as the Shekhinah, and the body as a vessel rather than an obstacle.

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Hebrew letters as a system of meaning and reality

034 lessons

Kabbalah & Spiritual Practice

Kabbalah here is not theory. It is the structure behind ordinary things: a Hebrew root, a garment, a mother, a morning.

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Longing for Jerusalem and the land of Israel

044 lessons

Jewish Identity, Land & Peoplehood

Judaism is not only a religion. Am Yisrael is a people, and this part of the library holds the writing about land, memory, war, exile and what it means to belong to this story now.

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054 lessons

Queen Yarin Guides & Practice

The background pieces: why a calendar was the first commandment given to the Jewish people, why this work exists, and where the guides, classes and prints come from.

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Study companion

Ask the month what it is asking of you

A guided reflection for every Hebrew month, drawn from this library.

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Essential reading

The foundations

month of Elul

ELUL: The Month That Changes Everything

Elul is the last month of the Jewish year, the thirty days before Rosh Hashanah. Together with the ten days that follow it, it forms a forty day period of reflection and return, teshuvah, before Yom Kippur. Its practices are honest self examination, the shofar, Selichot prayers, charity and repairing relationships.

Rosh Hashanah table set for the Jewish new year

Rosh Hashanah meaning

What to Actually Do in the Most Powerful 48 Hours

Rosh Hashanah, the head of the year, is the two day Jewish new year that opens the Ten Days of Return leading to Yom Kippur. Tradition gives the day five names, each describing a different dimension: the head of the year, the day of the shofar, the day of remembrance, the day of judgment and the day the world was created.

Hebrew birthday

Do You Know Your Hebrew Birthday?

Your Hebrew birthday is the date of your birth in the Jewish lunar calendar, which usually differs from the Gregorian date. Kabbalah understands it as the day the energy of your soul's arrival becomes accessible again, a personal new year. It is traditionally marked by blessing others, giving tzedakah, praying and reflecting on the year that passed.

feminine Judaism

Why This Moment in History Belongs to Women

Feminine Rising is a seven part masterclass on the feminine dimensions of Judaism: the Hebrew calendar, Rosh Chodesh, Shabbat and women's cycles. This opening piece sets out its claim, drawn from the Talmud and Midrash, that the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt in the merit of righteous women and will be redeemed again in their merit.

counting the Omer

The 49 Days That Can Change You

Sefirat HaOmer is the counting of forty nine days from the second night of Pesach until the eve of Shavuot, counted each evening after nightfall. Each of the seven weeks corresponds to one of the seven lower sefirot, from Chesed to Malchut, giving forty nine daily combinations of soul qualities to work with.

The practice

Live the year, don't only read about it

The Calendar 2026 turns everything in this library into a year you can walk through: every Hebrew month, its theme, its prompts and the space to answer them.

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Course catalogue

Learn the Jewish year, from the inside

The Guide to The Jewish Year