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The Gods of Doors and So Much More–Parshat Bo and the Making of the Month of January In his new book, The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are David Henkin talks about the different ways we count time and how those ways define our identities as both Jews and dwellers in the outside world each and every day.  We live in 2 worlds when it comes to tracking time.  On the one hand, we count time on our Jewish calendar, a calendar which runs primarily by the moon.  It helps us pace our lives through the rhythms of the holidays, months, Shabbatot and seasons.   And there is the way that we count time as members of the modern world using the Gregorian solar calendar.  That calendar marks events in our “secular” world like we did just last Friday night when we welcomed 2022.   And January has its unique feel.  The winter doldrums, shorter days and lots of snow and ice are nothing to get so excited about.  I often countdown the days until Spring in January.  But after