Finding Spiritual Resilience During Challenging Times
January 21, 2027 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Thursday, repeating until February 11, 2027
Thursdays, January 21, and 28 and February 4, and 11, 2027
12-1:30 p.m. ET
$180
How do we find the inner strength to speak out, gather, and take action in a time of ongoing injustice? And how do we nourish our spirits, discern what is ours to do, and find joy along the way?
Our Jewish tradition reminds us that we are not obligated to complete the work of tikkun olam (repairing the world), but neither are we free to abandon it. How can we live with this tension while sustaining our commitment to justice, tending to our spiritual lives, and protecting ourselves from burnout?
Join us this winter for a special series with Rabbi Haviva Ner-David, author, spiritual director, and peace activist. Drawing on her own lived experience, Haviva will invite you to reflect on these questions, connect with sources of strength and wisdom, and explore practices that can help you cultivate spiritual resilience. Together, we’ll explore how to keep showing up for the work of repair while making space for rest, connection, and joy—even in a struggling world.
All sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David is a rabbi and writer. She is the rabbinic founder of Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body, and Soul, the only mikveh in Israel open to all to immerse as they choose. Ordained as both a rabbi and an interfaith minister, certified as a spiritual companion (with a specialty in dreamwork), and holding a doctorate on mikveh from Bar Ilan University, she offers mikveh guidance and spiritual companioning for individuals and couples and mikveh workshops and talks for groups. She is the author of three spiritual journey memoirs — Dreaming Against the Current; A Rabbi’s Soul Journey; and Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment; and the Women’s Rituals of Baking, Bathing, and Brightening; and Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Towards Traditional Rabbinic Ordination, which was a runner up for the National Jewish Book Council Awards; as well as two novels: Hope Valley and To Die in Secret; and the first and only children’s book on mikveh: Yonah and the Mikveh Fish. She lives in Israel on Kibbutz Hannaton, is the mother of seven children, a teacher and lives with FSHD, a genetic muscular disease, which has been her biggest life challenge.
