A Special Omer Gathering: Finding Purpose in Challenging Times
Join Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg for a powerful live conversation on living with purpose, integrity, and resilience.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
1-2:00 p.m. EDT
Join Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg—an activist, author, and spiritual leader known for her work on justice, accountability, and Jewish ethics—for a powerful live conversation on living with purpose, integrity, and resilience.
Rabbi Danya brings a rare ability to weave Jewish wisdom with the urgent questions of our time, offering guidance that is both deeply grounded and immediately relevant. Her teaching helps us navigate complexity with clarity and compassion—especially when the path forward feels uncertain.
As we move through the Omer and approach its culmination, this gathering offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most. Together, we’ll explore how we continue to show up with intention in a world that asks so much of us.
Come ready to listen, reflect, and leave feeling renewed in your sense of purpose.
Deepen Your Omer Journey
This gathering is part of Omer Counting for Purpose—a seven-week journey of reflection and creativity rooted in the sacred qualities of the Omer.
When you join, you’ll receive weekly teachings, short videos, and writing prompts to help you explore your purpose through qualities like love, strength, resilience, and connection.
What You’ll Receive
- Weekly email teachings + short videos
- Reflective writing prompts and practices
- A guided journey through the seven sacred qualities of the Omer
- Access to our culminating live event with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
When you join Omer Counting for Purpose, you’re not only stepping into a meaningful personal journey—you’re also supporting Ritualwell’s work of creativity, connection, and Jewish meaning-making.
Your gift helps keep these resources accessible and this community thriving.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author of eight books who now makes her primary writing home with the newsletter/magazine LifeIsASacredText.com. She has received the Lives of Commitment Award from Auburn Seminary, and the Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award from the human rights organization T’ruah, was named by Newsweek as a “rabbi to watch,” and as a “faith leader to watch” by the Center for American Progress, and has been a Sunday Washington Post crossword clue (83 Down). Her most recent book, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World is a National Jewish Book Award winner and an American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Honor Book. It was hailed by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley as “A must read for anyone navigating the work of justice and healing.”
She has written for a number of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and been featured on NPR, the Today Show, USA Today, MTV News, and elsewhere. Her activism has taken her from the jail cell to the White House and back again, and has included advising lawmakers; organizing 2,500 rabbis in the fight for reproductive freedom through the fall of Roe; and mobilizing Jewish communities around economic justice and abuse accountability. Her North Star is the belief that we have a moral and religious obligation to care for one another, and to fight for a more just world.
