Pathways to Healing
Preparing Your Soul for the High Holy Day Season
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Your Soul Deserves Tending
This year has left many of us fractured and weary — carrying grief, exhaustion, and more than we have words for. And every year, the High Holy Day season invites us to ask the great questions: How do I return? How do I forgive? How do I begin again?
This year, we ask them through the lens of healing.
Pathways to Healing is a three-session course of soul preparation for the High Holy Days, walking the season’s arc from Elul to Sukkot and letting its timeless themes do their mending work. We arrive broken — and emerge more whole.
Choose the time that fits your life.
Tuesdays, August 18, 25 & September 1
4:00–5:30 pm PT / 6:00–7:30 pm CT / 7:00–8:30 pm ET
Thursdays, August 20, 27 & September 3
9:30–11:00 am PT / 11:30 am–1:00 pm CT / 12:30–2:00 pm ET
Includes access to all session recordings and private discussion space for ongoing discussion and connection. Registration closes Sunday, August 16 at 5:00 pm PT.
3 Live Teachings
Recordings
Discussion Space
The Door Is Already Open
Think of this season not as a deadline but as a doorway — one our tradition holds open for weeks. We’ll walk through it together, with core Jewish texts to light the path and mindfulness practices to deepen every step.
Walk this path in good company.
Through Torah, poetry, and mindfulness practice, we’ll discover how Judaism holds both what is broken in us and what can be mended. This isn’t just study. It’s soul preparation for the High Holy Days, done in community — because in our tradition, you don’t do this work alone.
Join us. Your soul deserves this kind of tending.
You’ll be learning live with Rabbi Jill, a warm and creative teacher who meets each person exactly where they are. And if life intervenes, every session is recorded and yours to keep.
From Brokenness Toward Healing
SESSION 1
What We’re Carrying
The question: What am I holding?
Before we can heal, we must be honest about what we’re holding. We name what is broken — in ourselves, in our relationships, in the world — and discover that Judaism has always known how to carry brokenness as something sacred.
Entering Elul with intention
Naming what we carry
Torah and poetry as grounding
Week of August 18
SESSION 2
The Turning
The questions: How do I return? How do I forgive?
Teshuvah means return — not judgment, but medicine. In Elul, God comes looking for us like a lover. We explore the ancient Jewish art of turning back toward ourselves, toward each other, toward God — arriving at Rosh Hashanah awake rather than overwhelmed.
The ancient root of return
Contemplative practice & presence
Spiritual friendship as our guide
Week of August 25
SESSION 3
The Journey to Wholeness
The question: How do I begin again?
Healing and compassion are inseparable — we cannot mend what we continue to judge. In this final session, we discover the compassion at the very center of the season: the lovingkindness we invoke on Yom Kippur and learn to extend to ourselves and each other, and the sukkah’s fragile shelter — where we sit open to the sky and let ourselves be held.
Compassion as the heart of healing
Softening toward self and others
Carrying the healing forward
Week of September 1
How much?
Tuition: $180
Includes all sessions and recordings, plus private discussion space.
Pay securely with your credit card. Please email Lynae if you need scholarship assistance.
Registration closes Sunday, August 16 at 5:00 pm PT.
How do I register & pay?
Register and then submit your payment.
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— TL, Los Angeles
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