ADVOT@Ritualwell Open House
Join us for an open house to learn about ADVOT@Ritualwell, a creative home for poets, liturgists, ritual creators, songwriters, and other Jewish artists.
The Poetry of Your Ancestors
Prepare for the High Holy Days with poet Anna Goodman Herrick to investigate, conjure, and generate new poetry from our ancestral wisdom and Jewish sacred texts.
Gates of Awe: Writing New High Holiday Liturgy
Dive into the richness and depth of four gems from our High Holy Day Machzor through reading, discussions, and writing exercises.
Gates of Awe: Writing New High Holiday Liturgy
Dive into the richness and depth of four gems from our High Holy Day Machzor through reading, discussions, and writing exercises.
Gates of Awe: Writing New High Holiday Liturgy
Dive into the richness and depth of four gems from our High Holy Day Machzor through reading, discussions, and writing exercises.
Gates of Awe: Writing New High Holiday Liturgy
Dive into the richness and depth of four gems from our High Holy Day Machzor through reading, discussions, and writing exercises.
Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading
Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish ritual innovators, poets and liturgists as we share new work from our third anthology!
This is My Jewish Heart
Join us for this free event featuring a guided poetry writing exercise about the stories of our hearts and making our way from a narrow place of anxiety and pain towards inner and outer liberation.
The Golden Shovel: Digging in Text for New Meaning
Join us to use poetic forms and techniques to bypass the logical brain and discover new levels of meaning and insight in verses from the TorahThe Five Books of Moses, and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and study of the Torah is a high mitzvah. The Torah itself a scroll that is hand lettered on parchment, elaborately dressed and decorated, and stored in a decorative ark. It is chanted aloud on Mondays, Thursdays, and Shabbat, according to a yearly cycle. Sometimes "Torah" is used as a colloquial term for Jewish learning and narrative in general..
Finding Our Place in the Stories of the Hebrew Matriarch: Sarah
Reclaim the stories of SarahThe first matriarch, wife of Abraham, and mother of Isaac, whom she birthed at the age of 90. Sarah, in Rabbinic tradition, is considered holy, beautiful, and hospitable. Many prayers, particularly the Amidah (the central silent prayer), refer to God as Magen Avraham – protector of Abraham. Many Jews now add: pokehd or ezrat Sarah – guardian or helper of Sarah. and the Hebrew matriarchs through poetic writing—and access the gifts of wisdom, healing, and joy that are our universal birthright.
