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Spiritual Preparation for the High Holy Days 2017

A 4 session “virtual” webinar* that you can participate in LIVE or listen to at your convenience! August 22, 29, September 5 & 12, 2017 4 consecutive Tuesday evenings 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Pacific time (live) Each year, we begin again. We journey back to our Source, our selves, our souls. The high holy day …

the silence that speaks

Upon awakening the first morning in our new place, the very first thing I noticed was the deep silence. Instinctively I took the deepest breath I had taken in months. Until we moved here to Laguna Woods, I didn’t even realize the noise level in west Los Angeles. I had obviously gotten accustomed to the …

Is Jewish Mindfulness A Trend?

Why is “mindfulness” is such a big deal right now? IT’S NOT JUST A TREND. In our crammed, overloaded, overly-busy lives, mindfulness offers us a way to calm down, pause, and take a breath.  Whether with meditation or yoga or prayer or singing or walking in nature, mindfulness practices provide ways to live consciously and …

Lift Out of Despair

I honestly can’t remember a time like this before. I know I’m not alone. Many of us are living with outrage, fear or anxiety front and center. It might be the relentless beat of painful world events. Or it could be something personal: a difficult diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, or the loss of someone …

a mindful summer: a soul-soothing approach to jewish spirituality

Bring spiritual awareness to your days as you move through summer.  This 4-session webinar series is about finding ways to imbue every day with gratitude, presence, and lovingkindness.   You will learn simple practices that you can start doing immediately to make this summer a restful place of delight. We will focus on these four …

The Present is the Present: Free Webinar with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman

I hope you will join me for this soul-filled one hour webinar on Thursday June 15, 2017. I would love to share with you what I’ve learned about how to integrate simple & powerful spiritual practices into each day, no matter the circumstances. Whether you are thrown by the relentlessness of “breaking news” or dealing with …

More For Your Passover Seder: On Freedom

Freedom Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk out under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers of light, the fields of dark— freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine remembering. Putting together, inch by inch the starry worlds. From all the lost collections. Adrienne Rich “For Memory,” A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far; W. W. Norton & …

our freedom is tied up with the freedom of all

A reading from the Social Justice Haggadah by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Words from Martin Luther King Jr., in his Letter from a Birmingham jail still resound today, as well as the wisdom from the Talmud.  “Tonight we are, all of us, from the youngest to the oldest, brothers and sisters in …

Passover As A Spiritual Practice

Passover is the “Master Story” of the Jewish people and frankly, for many liberation movements throughout history. The entire journey from slavery to freedom forms the quintessential foundation for the spiritual journey writ large. And it’s not “long ago” it’s now. Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, the great Hasidic teacher says “The exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, …

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