Rabbi Jill’s Recent Blog Posts

“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 …

Mindfulness, Poetry, Prayer and Song to Open Hearts

At our beautiful all-day retreat last Shabbat, “A Mindful Journey Through Shabbat” we did a morning of chant/kavannah/music/silence.  As leaders, we chose several key prayers (only a few) from the morning Shabbat service and went deeper into each one.  For example, we started with Modah/Modeh Ani, which means “Grateful/Thankful am I” and offered a brief …

Take A Snow Day (or even a Snow Moment)

There’s something about really bad weather (like blizzards) that are so freeing.  No matter what your plans are, your meetings and appointments, if you can’t get out of the driveway, you have to stay put.  You are forced to “stay.”  You can’t will yourself forward when the Big Snow says, “I don’t think so.”  (I …

feet standing on the ground

This Doesn’t Feel Like Holy Ground

  I don’t know how you are doing lately – but an awful lot of people I know are feeling overwhelmed, too busy, burdened by the energy of the season and many are struggling to walk through family illnesses and loss and economic difficulties.  The end of the year often tends to be like this.  Perhaps we …

A Mindful Journey Through Shabbat: One-day retreat

Saturday January 18, 2014  9:30 am – 6:30 pm at Leo Baeck Temple, West Los Angeles $125/person including lunch   (special price for Leo Baeck Temple members – see registration link) Please join us for an all-day retreat that will open your heart and feed your soul. Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg and Rabbi Myriam Klotz are inspiring teachers …

Celebration of Light: Shabbat morning meditation and music

Shabbat morning of celebrating the light: heart-opening music, meditation, and learning. with Cantor Ken Cohen and Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Saturday November 30 9:30 – 11:00 at private home in West Los Angeles Space is limited. Please write for more information:  rabbijillz@gmail.com

Hanukkah Candles Meditation

Here is a wonderful Hanukkah Candles Meditation I learned from my teacher Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appel. This is my interpretation and some additions. (To hear Jordan’s original video teaching, see the link below.) Meditation 1.  Before you light the candles, arrange everything: menorah, candles and matches, blessing. 2. Sit for a few moments in the darkness, …

Candid

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