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..
