jewish mindfulness

Siri and I: We’ve Been Friends…(evidently…)

  True story: I was talking to my husband Ely the other day about the candidates for the November election. We were sitting at the dining room table, my Iphone next to me. All of a sudden Siri (the Iphone “assistant”) just started answering me! She said “I don’t understand” and then she repeated the …

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 …

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 …

Endings #BlogElul Day 24

Endings are difficult. When we were at the last retreat of our Institute for Jewish Spirituality rabbinic cohort – 2 years of study, practice, and deep friendships, Rabbi Nancy Flam taught, in the name of Rachael Kessler (z”l) to really pay attention to what we do when we are at the end of something: do we …

Your Torah, Our Torah

Every one of us has a story. A story woven from the unique blend of gifts that are the core of who you are — what you have learned, what has endured, what you hold most dear. This Shavuot, we explore what happens when those singular stories meet at the foot of a mountain — and how that ancient moment still lives in us today.

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