Rabbi Jill’s Latest Blog Posts
We Journey With Angels (from Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count a project of Rabbi Cindy Enger and Rabbi Jill Zimmerman)
Welcome to the fortieth day of the Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count. We continue with this week’s kavannah (intention), which is Becoming the Vision. We are intricately connected with what happens in the world. Jewish tradition gives us Shabbat each week as a moment to let go of the weekday world so …
Finding Our Way: Week 5 of Journey of the Soul (Day 29)
DEADLINE TOMORROW! Webinars/Classes begin Wed. May 14 and Thurs. May 15. To Register: https://jewishmindful.org/upcoming-classes-and-events/ Welcome to the twenty-ninth day of the Journey of the Soul. This is the first day of the fifth week. This week’s new kavannah (intention) is Finding Our Way. In this fifth week of the journey, we find ourselves more than half-way …
Experiencing the Desert
This is a newsletter article written by Rabbi Cindy Enger. In our work together creating our daily Making the Omer Count emails, Cindy recalled the time she spent in Israel during her first year in rabbinic school. We excerpted part of this beautiful article in one of our emails. The full text is below. (If …
Responding to our Soul’s Calling
(This is a sermon I gave in November of 2008 at the Women of Reform Judaism Biennial convention, held in Seattle Washington. I’m posting it today because this explains, in part, why I felt called to become a rabbi at age 47. This is part of my life’s journey. In this week’s Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer …
Lovingkindness (Chesed) Practices and Resources
Judaism holds that the world was built with chesed (lovingkindness) We read in Psalms: Olam Chesed Yibaneh עוֹלָם, חֶסֶד יִבָּנֶה (The world is build with chesed*) Psalm 89:3. Our entire world is not only built with chesed but continually sustained our acts in the world. A few weeks ago, in our Hineni community, I taught …
“On What Disturbs, Then Nourishes” A guest post by Dani Shapiro
One of my very favorite authors and people – Dani Shapiro, writes about her frequent traveling, coming home and a poem (YES by David Whyte!!) that inspired wisdom within the constancy of change. Thank you Dani for allowing us to share this. Check out Dani’s blog – link at the bottom. And check out her …
The Spirituality of Nurturing
by Rabbi Wendy Spears Over the course of many weeks, I was privileged to be in partnership with my dear friend and colleague Rabbi Jill Zimmerman as we planned and shepherded a one-day retreat for a Mindful Journey Through Shabbat a few weeks ago, over the long weekend celebrating the birth of the Reverend Martin …
Standing Up and Sitting Down For Our Lives (and for Shabbat)
By Rabbi Cindy Enger Rabbi Cindy Enger participated in our “Mindful Journey Through Shabbat” a few weeks ago. She wrote this upon returning home to Chicago. Her beautiful insights are not only about the total’s day experience and what it takes to “clear the space” to spend a day on retreat, but also about Rabbi …
