This month's ritual has been designed with an awareness of our moth- ers, grandmother, and great-grandmothers who were earlier inhibited--- even in the community of Jewish women--from marking the cessation of menstruation, of derech nashim (the way of younger women as in Genesis 31:35) and the release from the physical tasks of childbearing and childrearing.

This month's ritual has been designed with an awareness of our moth- ers, grandmother, and great-grandmothers who were earlier inhibited--- even in the community of Jewish women--from marking the cessation of menstruation, of derech nashim (the way of younger women as in Genesis 31:35) and the release from the physical tasks of childbearing and childrearing.

This month's ritual has been designed with an awareness of our moth- ers, grandmother, and great-grandmothers who were earlier inhibited--- even in the community of Jewish women--from marking the cessation of menstruation, of derech nashim (the way of younger women as in Genesis 31:35) and the release from the physical tasks of childbearing and childrearing.