What
At Kimah we believe that, just as life is for the living, so, too, is death for the living.
Far from morbid, this embrace of death can be profoundly life affirming. Though rooted in the Jewish traditions around death and dying, we feel that Kimah is for anyone who seeks to deepen their understanding of, and connection to, what it means to be mortal.
One of the few celestial bodies mentioned in the TaNaKh (the Hebrew bible) Kimah is generally taken to refer to the Pleiades star cluster. Related to the Arabic word for accumulation and the Assyrian word for binding, Kimah is a symbol for who we are: rooted in the earth, with our eyes to the stars, we are bound together by our shared condition. It is our hope that by helping to facilitate an awareness of that condition, we can, together, nudge the world closer to compassion—both for ourselves and others.