Torah Metaphors: Connecting Between Biblical Figures and Our Lives

Facilitator: Jacquline Jules

Program Type: Event

Topic: creative writing, midrash, Torah

Zoom

Explore the emotional lives of Torah’s women and men—and discover where their stories intersect with your own. In this session, you’ll read selected texts, reflect on your personal reactions, and write imaginatively to a biblical character, drawing connections to your modern life. Come engage with timeless narratives as rich metaphors for your own inner journey.

$18

Beyond the Eulogy

Facilitator: Ellen Blum Barish

Program Type: Event

Topic: creative writing, legacy, loved one, Memoir, obituary

Zoom

In this gathering with memoirist Ellen Blum Barish, you are invited to gently explore the unique imprint someone dear has made on your life. Together, we’ll open space for memory, feeling, and reflection—considering not just who they were, but how they continue to shape who you are becoming.

$18

Oneg Shabbat: A New Table Companion

Facilitator: Rabbi Sandy Sasson and Rabbi Jeffrey Schein

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: Jewish ritual, Jewish spirituality, Shabbat

Zoom

Find fresh ideas, creative insight, and new ways to bring Shabbat joyfully to your table and community with Rabbis Sandy Sasso and Jeffrey Schein, editors of a new Shabbat companion.

Free

Drawing from Torah: A Generative Jewish Poetry Workshop

Facilitator: Dr. Eve Grubin

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, Poetry, Torah

Zoom

Discover how poets transform Jewish texts into powerful poems—and create your own in this generative workshop inspired by Torah and tradition.

Free

Exploring Disability Torah: Text, Reflection, and Creative Voice

Facilitator: Mat Wilson

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: disability, Disability Torah, JDAIM, Jewish Disability Awareness

Zoom

Join us to explore Disability Torah—hear from writers, study texts, and reflect through writing in an inclusive, creative space.

Free

Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom

Facilitator: Tzivia Gover

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality, Jewish texts, Poetry, Sarah and Haga

Zoom

We invite you to sample our upcoming Immersion, Sarah and Hagar: Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
in community. Join poet Tzivia for an interactive conversation on Sarah, Hagar, and feminine wisdom, followed by a creative writing prompt and time for sharing what we uncover.

Free

Purim & the Poetry of Resistance

Facilitator: Anna Goodman Herrick

Program Type: Event

Topic: Esther, Jewish joy, Poetry, Purim, Social Justice

Zoom

Prepare for Purim through poetry, imagination, and sacred play. In this generative workshop, you’ll investigate, conjure, and write new poems inspired by ancestral wisdom and the Jewish texts of Purim—a holiday that invites both joy and holy mischief.

$18

Poems of Freedom: A Reading & Writing Experience

Facilitator: Cathleen Cohen and Lynn Levin

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Passover, Poetry, Yetzirah

Zoom

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 8-9:30 p.m. EST Prepare for Passover—the festival of liberation—through poetry, reflection, and creative expression. Join Ritualwell and the Philly Yetzirah Regional Chapter for a special reading, […]

Holding The Sweet and The Bitter: Four New Questions for Passover 2026

Facilitator:

Program Type: Event

Topic: Four questions, Passover, Passover 2026, seder

Zoom

As we prepare for Passover 2026, join us for a meaningful exploration of how to balance joy and challenge at your seder table.
To spark thoughtful and heartfelt conversation, the Ritualwell team has created a new collection of curated Passover resources, including four new questions to complement the traditional Four Questions. This printable PDF will be delivered electronically and accessible online, ready to bring to your table when you register for this event.

$18

The Art of the Unexpected: A House Parties Reading

Facilitator: Lynn Levin

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic:

Zoom

Join author Lynn Levin as she invites us into narratives that are both surprising and resonant, ranging from the comic and absurd to the quietly profound. Whether you write, read, or simply love great storytelling, come be inspired by Lynn’s craft, engage with her work, and explore what makes these stories linger in the mind long after the last page.

Free

Omer Counting for Purpose

Facilitator:

Program Type: Event

Topic: Counting the Omer, Jewish spirituality, Omer, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Zoom

Support Ritualwell’s Omer campaign and join a seven-week journey of teachings, creative prompts, and reflection exploring the question “What is mine to offer?” Rooted in the wisdom of the sefirot, this experience culminates in a gathering with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg to help ground your purpose in action.

$54

Tree of Life: A Mind‑Body‑Spirit Practice

Facilitator: Rabbi Tsurah August

Program Type: Event

Topic: Jewish spirituality, movement, somatic pratice

Zoom

This Hanukkah, join us for a unique exploration of ritual, awareness, movement and light. Rabbi Tsurah August, a teacher rooted in somatic practice, mindfulness and Jewish mystical tradition, invites us into Embodying the Light — a session to awaken our bodies, our hearts and our spiritual vision.

$18

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