Braided Together: ‘Take Challah’ Ritual in Community
Join Adva Chattler for a monthly gathering to explore the ritual of “Taking Challah”: the tradition of blessing the dough of our challah before baking it. Aside from the ritual, we will learn a new braiding and decorating technique each month. Our time together will be sprinkled with song, chant, storytelling and more, as we braid our challahs together. Recipe, step-by-step guide and more resources will be shared in advance.
Braided Together: ‘Take Challah’ Ritual in Community
Join Adva Chattler for a monthly gathering to explore the ritual of “Taking Challah”: the tradition of blessing the dough of our challah before baking it. Aside from the ritual, we will learn a new braiding and decorating technique each month. Our time together will be sprinkled with song, chant, storytelling and more, as we braid our challahs together. Recipe, step-by-step guide and more resources will be shared in advance.
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!
Spiritual Resilience in a Time of War: Inspired by Etty Hillesum
Read and discuss Etty Hillesum’s writings as a springboard for creating our own spiritual and writing practices. We’ll explore major themes in her work: creativity, prayer, meditation, love, suffering, acceptance, death, and freedom.
Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
For centuries, Jewish women in Eastern Europe measured cemeteries and graves with thread. Join us to learn how to perform these rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. Participants will receive training and resources to host a grave measuring event in Elul or another time during the year.
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.
Judaism Through The Kaleidoscope: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Join us explore the rich, beautiful writings of Rav Kook and use them as opportunities for spiritual practice, including creative writing and guided embodied exercises.
Jewish Spiritual Autobiography
Writing a spiritual autobiography helps you to discover how teachers, touchstones, symbols and stories have led you to make meaning and understand the sacred in your personal story. In this immersion, join Ritualwell’s Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, a writer and spiritual director, to map out and narrate your most meaningful life experiences.
Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah
In this study of the Zohar, we’ll explore the Shekhinah, the feminine, immanent, indwelling Sacred Presence, through the use of art materials and reflective writing.
Finding Our Place in the Stories of the Hebrew Matriarch: Sarah
Reclaim the stories of Sarah and the Hebrew matriarchs through poetic writing—and access the gifts of wisdom, healing, and joy that are our universal birthright.
