Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting

Whether you’re picking up the pen for the first time or polishing a work-in-progress, Jewish ritual and everyday moments can become sparks for your next play. With award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel’s guidance, you’ll dive into creative exercises that open fresh layers of spirit and story. Come curious, come bold, and be ready to surprise yourself.

Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting

Whether you’re picking up the pen for the first time or polishing a work-in-progress, Jewish ritual and everyday moments can become sparks for your next play. With award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel’s guidance, you’ll dive into creative exercises that open fresh layers of spirit and story. Come curious, come bold, and be ready to surprise yourself.

Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting

Whether you’re picking up the pen for the first time or polishing a work-in-progress, Jewish ritual and everyday moments can become sparks for your next play. With award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel’s guidance, you’ll dive into creative exercises that open fresh layers of spirit and story. Come curious, come bold, and be ready to surprise yourself.

Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting

Whether you’re picking up the pen for the first time or polishing a work-in-progress, Jewish ritual and everyday moments can become sparks for your next play. With award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel’s guidance, you’ll dive into creative exercises that open fresh layers of spirit and story. Come curious, come bold, and be ready to surprise yourself.

More than Wishing: Creating a Happy New Year

A person wearing sunglasses blows on a dandelion, scattering its seeds outdoors on a sunny day.

Start the new year with intention. Our new Ritualwell booklet offers poems, prayers, and creative prompts to guide you through the Days of Awe. Grounded in Judaism’s calls to Teshuvah, Tefillah, and Tzedakah, you’ll find meaningful, doable ways to renew yourself and help repair the world. Purchase includes access to a special meditation and reflection event with Rabbi Jacob Staub.

Discovering Jewish Joy: A Ritualwell Community Gathering

Celebrate the release of Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage with the Ritualwell community through an evening of storytelling, reflection, and creative writing centered on Jewish joy. This uplifting event features readings from the anthology, a rich conversation on joy as a spiritual practice, and a guided writing prompt to deepen personal connection.

Women of the Bible: A Retelling

A woman in dark clothing gazes into a water basin, seeing her own reflection in the rippling water.

Join us for a vibrant session where we reclaim and reimagine the women of the Hebrew Bible — not as distant figures, but as powerful voices that still speak to us today. Through guided writing or art-making, you’ll reflect on identity, faith, and resilience — and create something new of your own.

The Creative Fire of Folklore

Three people sit around a campfire near the shore at dusk, with the sea and trees in the background.

Use your family or community’s sayings in poems that explore how the past informs the present. Come prepared to have fun, while trying your hand at techniques for folding both folklore and imagery into poetry that’s at once individual and universal.

Finding Shekhinah

A lone tree stands in a misty field under a colorful, cloudy sky at sunrise or sunset.

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

Finding Shekhinah

A lone tree stands in a misty field under a colorful, cloudy sky at sunrise or sunset.

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

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