Weekly Spiritual Offerings

All offerings are on Zoom. Please Contact Daniel for Zoom information.

Monday: Spiritual Direction with Meredith Barber

8:00 a.m.

Hashpa'ah (Jewish spiritual direction) is a process for exploring our connection with what we experience as God, Spirit, Truth, Ultimate Values — however we express and understand the sacred in our lives. The subject matter discussed may be the simple activities of every day or a significant or challenging event in the life of the participants. Through these explorations, those engaged in Spiritual Direction try to discern the presence of the Sacred in their everyday lives, work, celebrations, and struggles.

Tuesday: Restorative Meditation with Abby Ruder

4:30 p.m.

Wednesday: Awakening To The Day with Rabbi Shawn Zevit

Off until the month of Elul, Wednesday Aug 27th.

Join us for a spirit-centered start to the day with gentle movement, prayers, reflections, and music that awaken body, heart, mind and spirit. The 45 minutes follows the general structure of Jewish morning prayer and Kaddish is included towards the end of this service for all in need.

Thursday: Nurturing Embodied Presence: Movement and Breath Practice with Moon Smith and Rabbi Simcha Zevit

8:00 a.m.

Join us to start the day by tapping into the vitality of our beings, using a unique combination of Jewish spiritual teachings, Qigong, and breath practice. We’ll begin with gentle movement and the ease of natural breath, and move into a variety of breath practices that bring calm, balance, and vitality. Breath gives us the gift of awakening the presence and wisdom of our bodies, opening our hearts, and being present with calm and alert minds. The practice ends with a brief guided meditation to send us into our days grounded, clear and enlivened!

Friday: SPIRIT OF SHABBAT with Ohevet Susan Windle  Ohevet Wendy Galson

Connect, learn and prepare for Shabbat with this online program of chant, silence, spontaneous writing and meditations on the Song of Songs. In order to create a holy container for prayer and meditation, we will admit people to the Zoom Room between 8:00 through 8:05 AM ET ONLY. Please come on time.

We will study: Beshalach

We will chant: My Beloved is Mine: Dodi Li

Rosh Chodesh

All who bless the new moon in its proper time are as if they greet the face of the Shechinah. — Babylonian Talmud
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With a joyous welcome to all, we offer monthly rituals honoring Rosh Chodesh, the new moon that begins each month of the Jewish year. These gatherings explore aspects of the divine feminine (Shechinah) and are open to people of any gender who wish to honor our roots in earth-based practices. We let the moon choose the evening of our meeting.

During our Rosh Chodesh celebrations, we review the challenges and blessings of the month that is ending, and welcome the new month with chanting, study, poetry and art-making. Each session includes contemplative savoring of chocolate, sanctified by our own Blessing for Chocolate:

B’rucha at Yah, Shechinateynu ruach ha’olam, sh’hafchah mar l’matok v’natnah bahnu koach l’shanot.

Blessed are you, Yah, Indwelling Spirit of the World, who transforms bitter to sweet and makes all transformation possible.

The conveners are chant leader Ohevet Wendy G, Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) Shoshana B, and poet Ohevet Susan W.