Event

Name: Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge
Start: 2025-05-15T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-15T13:30:00-04:00
Location: Zoom

December 2024
Capturing Your (Grand)Child’s Stories

December 4, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: children's books, creative writing, grandchildren, Hanukkah, kidlit
Zoom

Join us on December 4 for an engaging conversation about bringing your family stories to life!

Whether your goal is to publish or simply to create a family keepsake story, discover an effective process to outline and breathe life into your narratives. This event is perfectly timed for those looking to create and share a story that could make a memorable Hanukkah gift for the family.

Free
A Secret Chord: Exploring Leonard Cohen’s Sacred/Secular Songs

December 10, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Recurring

Facilitator: Amy Gottlieb
Program Type: Event
Topic:
Zoom

Join writer Amy Gottlieb for an interactive exploration of Leonard Cohen's powerful creative work and discover how Cohen's lyrics express a desire for transcendence and relationship with God. Cohen's song lyrics will inspire writing prompts to generate your own poems, prose or even song lyrics.

$54
Braided Together: ‘Take Challah’ Ritual in Community

December 12, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST Recurring

Facilitator: Adva Chattler
Program Type: Event, Free, Monthly program
Topic: challah baking, Jewish women, mitzvot, ritual, Spiritual practice, spirituality
Zoom

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.

Free
A Secret Chord: Exploring Leonard Cohen’s Sacred/Secular Songs

December 17, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Recurring

Facilitator: Amy Gottlieb
Program Type: Event
Topic:
Zoom

Join writer Amy Gottlieb for an interactive exploration of Leonard Cohen's powerful creative work and discover how Cohen's lyrics express a desire for transcendence and relationship with God. Cohen's song lyrics will inspire writing prompts to generate your own poems, prose or even song lyrics.

$54
January 2025
Nia into the NEW Year

January 2, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Facilitator: Janice Steinberg
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: 2025, creative writing, dance, free event, new year, Nia, wellbeing
Zoom

Join the Ritualwell community and Nia instructor Janice Steinberg to engage your body, spirit and creativity through Nia movement followed by prompts for reflection and writing. No experience needed!

Free
February 2025
Creating Your Own Meaningful Tu B’Shvat Rituals

February 12, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

Facilitator: Wendy Horwitz
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic:
Zoom

Join the Rituawell community to reflect on your connections to this Jewish celebration of nature and discover new ideas to create your own meaningful Tu B’Shvat rituals.

Free
Voices of Disability

February 28, 2025

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Rabbi Asher Sofman
Program Type: Event
Topic: creativity, Disability Justice, Disability Torah, JDAIM, Jewish Disability Awareness, Jewish texts
Zoom

Voices of Disability is a special new collection of curated poetry, prayers and teachings about disability from Ritualwell contributors. This printable PDF will be sent to you electronically and can be accessed online.
When you purchase this new collection, you will also receive a recording of our ‘Writing Disability Torah’ event.

$18
March 2025
To Laugh: Using Humor to Survive Jewish History

March 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Facilitator: Rob Kutner
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: comedy, humor, Jewish history, Writing
Zoom

Join Emmy-winning TV comedy writer Rob Kutner (The Daily Show, CONAN) and bestselling author (Marvel’s Look Out for the Little Guy) as he shares his new book, The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting —a comedic survey of all of Jewish history, plus jokes! Kutner will read from the book and offer and lead participants in exercises designed to harness humor to disarm a menacing world.

Free
April 2025
Why is This Year’s Seder Different?

April 11, 2025

Facilitator: Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: Haggadah, Jewish texts, Passover, Passover 2025, Poetry, seder
Zoom

Ritualwell has created a new collection of curated Passover resources: Why is this Seder Different? Questions, Readings & Conversation Starters for a Challenging Year. This printable PDF will be delivered electronically and is accessible online.

When you register, you will receive our new collection of curated Passover resources: 'Why is this Seder Different? Questions, Readings & Conversation Starters for a Challenging Year.'
Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge

April 16, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

Facilitator: Ritualwell
Program Type: Event
Topic: Counting the Omer, creativity, Jewish spirituality, Shavuot
Zoom

The Counting of the Omer is a time for spiritual introspection and growth. During a time when many of us are feeling deflated and anxious about the state of the world, this ritual can help us to recharge our Neshamah, our soul.

Ritualwell is here for you! Through the 7-week period of the Omer, we’ll provide you with support, accountability, community and creative inspiration to do this spiritual work.

$54
MALACHIM, Renewed: A Community Art Project

April 28, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT

Facilitator: Ritualwell
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: angel cards, Jewish spirituality, malachim
Zoom

Create art. Create ritual. Create community.

Submit your visual art. Be part of the creation of the new MALACHIM (Jewish Angel Cards) Set, MALACHIM Messages of Blessing Cards: Ritualwell Community Edition. Join us on April 28 to find out more!

Free
May 2025
Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge

May 15, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

Facilitator: Ritualwell
Program Type: Event
Topic: Counting the Omer, creativity, Jewish spirituality, Shavuot
Zoom

The Counting of the Omer is a time for spiritual introspection and growth. During a time when many of us are feeling deflated and anxious about the state of the world, this ritual can help us to recharge our Neshamah, our soul.

Ritualwell is here for you! Through the 7-week period of the Omer, we’ll provide you with support, accountability, community and creative inspiration to do this spiritual work.

$54

Event

December 2024

Capturing Your (Grand)Child’s Stories

A Secret Chord: Exploring Leonard Cohen’s Sacred/Secular Songs

Braided Together: ‘Take Challah’ Ritual in Community

A Secret Chord: Exploring Leonard Cohen’s Sacred/Secular Songs

January 2025

Nia into the NEW Year

February 2025

Creating Your Own Meaningful Tu B’Shvat Rituals

Voices of Disability

March 2025

To Laugh: Using Humor to Survive Jewish History

April 2025

Why is This Year’s Seder Different?

Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge

MALACHIM, Renewed: A Community Art Project

May 2025

Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge

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