The Journey Home
Soul Preparation for the High Holy Days 2025/5786
Come, find your place at the table and breathe deeply.
This year has left many of us feeling fractured and weary—how can the sacred rhythm of the High Holy Days help heal what’s been broken and restore a sense of wholeness?
The first gift of the High Holy Days comes when we set time aside in the month before Rosh Hashanah to reflect on our past year. What did we learn? What has changed us? What needs healing?
The High Holy Days offer us something precious: a sacred pathway from brokenness back to wholeness, from scattered pieces to integrated souls.
Over three nurturing sessions, we’ll walk this ancient journey together. We’ll explore the timeless stories that have guided our people through their own seasons of rupture and repair—stories that speak with startling clarity to this moment we’re living.
Through sacred texts, gentle mindfulness practices, and the healing voices of poets and songwriters, we’ll discover how our tradition holds space for both our wounds and our healing.
This isn’t just study—it’s soul preparation. The more intentionally we ready our hearts, the more deeply the High Holy Days can reach us, transform us, and restore what feels lost.
Join us. Your spirit deserves this kind of tending.
From Brokenness to Wholeness
The High Holy Days guide us from brokenness to wholeness. We begin by honestly facing what has fallen apart, learn what we can from the breaking, and then—with compassion and the season’s powerful sacred themes—begin the work of repair. We emerge renewed and ready to engage the world.
Session 1: The Art of Healing What is Broken – what can we learn from when things fall apart?
Session 2: Return Begins the Moment You Decide – discovering how the ancient wisdom of teshuvah/return lives at the very heart of creation.
Session 3: Restoring Compassion – gentle practices to restore compassion for yourself and others, holding all our wounds with kindness.
Please come join us for this course. We would love to have you!
Join our warm and welcoming community of learners as we study core texts from Jewish tradition to illuminate the path, along with mindfulness practices to enrich your experience.
Why?
Because when we do our own soul work, these holy days are so much more meaningful.
Is this course for you?
This course is for anyone interested in journeying through this time with other spiritual seekers. It is taught from a Jewish spiritual perspective, and everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be Jewishly knowledgeable. We create a beautiful and supportive community together.
When?
This course will be offered at two different times to accommodate time zones and schedules! You can choose Tuesdays (5:00 pm PT//8:00 pm ET) or Thursdays (9:30 am PT//12:30 pm ET). The same content will be taught each week, so you may choose to attend one day or both days.
Each session is 1 hour:
- Session 1: August 26 &/or 28
- Session 2: September 2 /or & 4
- Session 3: September 9 &/or 11
Each session is offered live so you have real-time with Rabbi Jill, a creative and warm teacher who relates to people at all stages of their spiritual journey. All sessions are recorded in case you can’t attend live.
Each Session Includes:
- Core centering texts from Jewish tradition that illuminate a foundational principle.
- Spiritual practice (meditation, guided intentions, prayer) to deepen your experience.
- Poetry and music (yes, there’s a music Playlist!)
- A warm and inclusive group environment where everyone is accepted for who they are.
- Handouts that you will want to save – they include all the texts, poetry and space for journaling.
- Conversation and sharing among participants – we learn from each other’s wisdom.
- Recordings of each session if you can’t attend live.
How much?
Tiered Pricing: $72 – $144
Please email Lynae if you need scholarship assistance.
Pay securely with your credit card.
How do I register & pay?
Register and then submit your payment.
Read what others have said about Rabbi Jill’s classes:
Rabbi Jill – I am so grateful to have found you. Words are insufficient to tell you how much you have enriched my life, given comfort, and inspiration. The highlights of my week are always the times with you. Thank you for everything you do.
— TL, Los Angeles
Rabbi Jill’s class has given me the guidance and support I need to live more fully in the present moment. It is an honor to be part of Rabbi Jill’s revolutionary and sustainable model for the future of our Jewish community.
— Chava Mirel, Composer & Cantorial Soloist, Seattle, WA
Rabbi Jill – Your use of Torah as metaphor and the profound reflective questions you ask have allowed me to tap into a spiritual awareness of how my life’s journey and seeking intersect in more meaningful and deeply connected ways with the larger Jewish metanarrative than I ever realized or could have accessed alone.
— Harriet Cohen, PhD, LCSW, Texas
Path With Heart Community
A Jewish Mindfulness Community with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman is the founding rabbi of the Path With Heart Community: Jewish Mindfulness For Every Day. A trailblazer in the Jewish virtual world, she began creating online communities long before the pandemic. Rabbi Zimmerman believes that the sacred can manifest in many forms, and she regularly integrates poetry, music, and other creative expressions into her work. She teaches extensively on the intersection of spirituality and mindfulness. Additionally, she founded Hineni, a membership-based online Jewish spirituality and mindfulness community that meets several times a month, including every Shabbat. As a spiritual activist, Rabbi Zimmerman speaks out on contemporary issues from a Jewish perspective. She is available for teaching in person or virtually, Scholar-in-Residence retreats, and day-long workshops.