Asherah Hi HaShechinah

Posted by: bnewman This song was inspired by a social media post about Asherah, the Canaanite goddess who was sometimes worshipped as the consort of the G-d of Israel. I've seen fellow pagans (but usually non-Jewish ones) argue that Judaism is to blame for historically sending the goddess into exile, while proudly rescuing the feminist sparks from the patriarchal shells of their own ancestral…