Ritualwell creates a vibrant community through online learning classes and events. All are welcomed into our supportive, safe learning space. You will join people from diverse Jewish backgrounds, eager to explore Jewish ritual, creativity, writing and spirituality.
There are multiple ways to learn with us:
- FREE standalone sessions with leading Jewish educators and writers;
- Ritualwell Immersions, 4- or 6-week online, in real time classes for deep engagement;
- ADVOT, a creative community of Jewish ritual innovators and writers who meet regularly to share and support each other’s work.
ADVOT is Ritualwell’s online community of Jewish writers, poets, liturgists and ritual creators. Enjoy multiple Ritualwell Immersions throughout the year. Access our weekly online writing space, hevruta pairings, online retreats, an anthology, & more!
Browse our many other Ritualwell programs below!
Event Calendar
Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
Exploring Disability Torah: Text, Reflection, and Creative Voice
Facilitator: Mat Wilson
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: disability, Disability Torah, JDAIM, Jewish Disability Awareness
Join us to explore Disability Torah—hear from writers, study texts, and reflect through writing in an inclusive, creative space.
Lifting the Threads: Writing Past and Present
Facilitator: Megan Vered
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity
Join writer Megan Vered to generate a short memoir piece that demonstrates fluid interplay between present and past—using backstory as a source of resonance and honoring the threads of memory that connect us to our histories and communities.
Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
Facilitator: Tzivia Gover
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality, Jewish texts, Poetry, Sarah and Haga
we invite you to sample our upcoming Immersion, Sarah and Hagar: Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
in community. Join poet Tzivia for an interactive conversation on Sarah, Hagar, and feminine wisdom, followed by a creative writing prompt and time for sharing what we uncover.
Purim & the Poetry of Resistance
Facilitator: Anna Goodman Herrick
Program Type: Event
Topic: Esther, Jewish joy, Poetry, Purim, Social Justice
Prepare for Purim through poetry, imagination, and sacred play. In this generative workshop, you’ll investigate, conjure, and write new poems inspired by ancestral wisdom and the Jewish texts of Purim—a holiday that invites both joy and holy mischief.
Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
Lifting the Threads: Writing Past and Present
Facilitator: Megan Vered
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity
Join writer Megan Vered to generate a short memoir piece that demonstrates fluid interplay between present and past—using backstory as a source of resonance and honoring the threads of memory that connect us to our histories and communities.
Sarah and Hagar: Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
Facilitator: Tzivia Gover
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, midrash, Poetry, Sarah and Hagar, Torah
Re-examine the matriarchs Sarah and Hagar to discover strength, wisdom, and inspiration for our own lives. Text study, discussion, and writing prompts will help you uncover new possibilities for understanding female relationships, motherhood, and feminine archetypes.
Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
Sarah and Hagar: Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
Facilitator: Tzivia Gover
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, midrash, Poetry, Sarah and Hagar, Torah
Re-examine the matriarchs Sarah and Hagar to discover strength, wisdom, and inspiration for our own lives. Text study, discussion, and writing prompts will help you uncover new possibilities for understanding female relationships, motherhood, and feminine archetypes.
Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
Sarah and Hagar: Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
Facilitator: Tzivia Gover
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, midrash, Poetry, Sarah and Hagar, Torah
Re-examine the matriarchs Sarah and Hagar to discover strength, wisdom, and inspiration for our own lives. Text study, discussion, and writing prompts will help you uncover new possibilities for understanding female relationships, motherhood, and feminine archetypes.
We seek to be a fully inclusive community.
People of all backgrounds, ages, genders, identities and levels of Jewish knowledge and creative practice are warmly welcome to our programs. We encourage writers who identify as BIJOC (Black Indigenous Jews of Color), Mizrahi/Sephardi, LGBTQ+, interfaith, low-income and disabled to join us.
Please note that this year we have increased our prices in order to increase the rate we pay our faculty. We continue to offer an array of free programming to be accessible to all. If you have financial need or any questions, please reach out to us at ritualwell@reconstructingjudaism.org.
All our programs take place online. All learning sessions are recorded and made available to registrants. For up-to-date announcements on our programming, please subscribe to our newsletter.
