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SUMMARY:Prescription to Feel: A Guided Conversation on Love\, Loss\, and the Power of Community to Sustain Us
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 1\, 2024\n12-1:30 p.m. EDT\n$36\n \nRitual can help us to navigate life’s most challenging circumstances. In her new book\, Fifty-Seven Fridays author Myra Sack illustrates how embracing rituals can help us find beauty and fulfillment while simultaneously experiencing grief. She writes poignantly about the extraordinary love and extraordinary grief that she experienced during her daughter Havi’s diagnosis with Tay-Sachs disease\, through Havi’s death\, and during the first year after she died.\n \nJoin Myra and the Ritualwell community for a conversation about both her personal journey of grief\, and to learn about the many rituals that her family has developed to keep their daughter’s essence alive. Myra will share her orientation toward grief\, her exploration of bereavement-science and spirituality\, and devotion to grief literacy. She will invite us to consider this possibility: that each of us can find a different way to be in grief with ourselves and each other.\n \nDuring this event you will have an opportunity to engage in a writing prompt to reimagine grief so that it makes room for life.\n \nYou can learn more about Myra’s story here.\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nAn all-american\, scholar athlete who turned her love for sport into a platform for social change\, Myra Sack has led sports-based youth development non-profits for over a decade. A writer\, coach\, and activist\, she is the mother of two daughters and one son and lives in Boston\, MA with her family. Her oldest daughter\, Havi\, passed away on January 20\, 2021 of Tay-Sachs disease.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/prescription-to-feel-a-guided-conversation-on-love-loss-and-the-power-of-community-to-sustain-us/
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SUMMARY:Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, July 2\, 9\, 16\, 23\, 30 and August 6\, 2024\n2-3:30 p.m. EDT\n$250\n \n\n\n\n\nPrepare yourself for Elul and the High Holy Days by learning an ancient tradition\, rarely taught by those who have practice in this tradition. \n\n\nFor generations\, Jewish women in Eastern Europe utilized threads to measure cemeteries and graves. These threads were used to create special soul candles known as neshome likht\, or sometimes as protective bands worn on wrists\, ankles\, or necks. Typically overseen by skilled women called feldmesterins\, activities such as feldmestn (cemetery measuring) and kneytlekh leygn (laying wicks) were most prevalent during Elul to prepare soul candles for Yom Kippur. \n\n\nIn this Ritualwell Immersion program\, you will be guided on how to carry out these rituals based on translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. The session will include teaching Yiddish songs\, reciting tkhines (Yiddish prayers)\, and reading poems\, some of which are focused on this ritual. Delving into the history of this tradition will shed light on how cemeteries were perceived in shtetl society\, serving as a means to communicate with the deceased and seek their assistance. At the end of this Immersion\, you will be able to host a cemetery measuring event in Elul or any other time of the year. \n\n\nThis Immersion is open for all! If you are intrigued by Yiddish\, Jewish\, or local history; eager to explore overlooked folklore and protective practices; or seeking new avenues to connect with your ancestors; if you are a Jewish educator\, spiritual leader\, or community members interested in leading this program during the month of Elul at their local cemeteries: You are welcome to join us! \nWant to learn more? Watch this short video! \n\n\n\n \n\nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n\nAnnabel Cohen is a PhD Student in Modern Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America\, focusing on the interwar Jewish anti-fascist left. She has a Masters with distinction in History from the University of London. Alongside her PhD research\, Annabel researches and translates materials relating to Jewish women’s religiosity in Eastern Europe\, publishing her work on the blog www.pullingatthreads.com. Her essay on feldmesterins – cemetery measuring women – was published in the recent anthology Strange Fire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic\, published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2021. She is one of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2023-24 Translation Fellows\, for which she is translating the memoirs of Communist journalist\, Gina Medem. Annie teaches Yiddish with the Workers’ Circle and YIVO\, and this coming academic year will be teaching Yiddish language\, history and culture at the Sorbonne university\, Paris. Since 2018\, Annie has been studying feminine and earth-based Jewish practice with the Kohenet Hebrew institute. She will be ordained as a Kohenet on August 18.\n \n\n\n\n\nSarah Chandler aka Kohenet Shamirah is a Brooklyn-based Jewish educator\, artist\, activist\, healer\, and poet. She teaches\, writes and consults on issues related to Judaism\, earth-based spiritual practice\, respectful workplaces\, mindfulness\, and farming. An ordained Kohenet with the Hebrew Priestess Institute and a trainer for “Taamod: Stand Up!”\, she is also is an advanced student of Kabbalistic dream work at The School of Images. Previously\, Sarah served as the Director of Romemu Yeshiva\, Chief Compassion Officer of Jewish Initiative for Animals\, and Director of Earth Based Spiritual Practices at Hazon’s Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. Currently\, she is the CEO of Shamir Collective\, as a coach and consultant to high profile artists and authors to launch new music and books\, as well as lead trainer for Soft as a Rock: Public Speaking for Sensitive Souls.\n \n\n\n\n\nÉléonore Weill is a French-American vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Éléonore Weill creates and performs soulful interpretations of Klezmer\, Yiddish\, French\, Occitane music as well as original compositions\, poems and improvisations. In addition to her social justice Yiddish music ensemble Tsibele\, she performs and records internationally in a variety of ensembles with Frank London\, Michael Winograd\, Walter Thompson\, Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble\, Kenny Wallesen\, FADA\, the Baroque Music Center of Versailles (C.M.B.V.)\, Orchestre National de Toulouse\, Midwood\, Les Saqueboutiers\, Miqueu Montanaro\, and many others. She also composed and played for Theater companies such as Doppelskope\, Great Small Works and Bread and Puppets and performs at leading international festivals including Yiddish New York\, the Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto)\, Kleztival (São Paulo)\, and KlezKanada (Quebec)\, Fun Dor Tsu Dor (Chateau Ligoure\, France) on wooden flutes\, piano\, accordion\, hurdy-gurdy\, and as a lead singer.\n\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/threading-stones-an-elul-tradition/2024-08-06/
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SUMMARY:Spiritual Resilience in a Time of War: Inspired by Etty Hillesum
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, July 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 and August 7\, 2024 \n12- 1:15 p.m. EDT\n$225\n \n\nIn a time of conflict and war\, we need practices that connect us to our humanity\, allowing us to tap into our inner strength and source of hope and peace. The writings of Etty Hillesum are a treasure trove of the human spirit; she wrote her diaries and letters from 1941 to 1943\, before her life was tragically cut short in Auschwitz. Her writings reveal an astonishing spiritual resilience and a universal love for humanity and for God\, even during the darkest times. While living through the dire historical circumstances encroaching on European Jewry\, she developed a deep and unflinching faith in humanity that carried her through the most difficult of times.\n \n\n\n\nIn this series of online gatherings\, we will read and discuss Hillesum’s writings as a springboard for creating our own spiritual and writing practices. We’ll explore major themes in her work: creativity\, prayer\, meditation\, love\, suffering\, acceptance\, death\, and freedom. We’ll engage in journaling\, meditation\, and prayer practices inspired by her work. With the intention of connecting to our inner voices and crafting our own paths to resilience\, we’ll support each other in imagining and creating a better world.\n \n\nThis course is open to people of all backgrounds.\n\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n\nPhoto by Paul Goyette\nHila Ratzabi is the author of the award-winning poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press\, 2022). Her poetry has been published widely in literary journals and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Her articles have appeared in publications including The Wisdom Daily\, MyJewishLearning.com\, the Jewish Daily Forward\, Kveller\, Alma\, and Zeek. From 2015–2023\, she ran Ritualwell.org\, publishing innovative Jewish rituals\, poetry\, and liturgy and curating online learning experiences. She is currently director of communications at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe\, Illinois\, and lives in Oak Park outside Chicago. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/spiritual-resilience-in-a-time-of-war-inspired-by-etty-hillesum/2024-08-07/
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SUMMARY:ADVOT@Ritualwell Open House
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 12\, 2024\n12-1 p.m. EDT\n \n\n \nNow more than ever\, Jewish writers and other creatives need a nurturing home to encourage each other and uplift each other’s creative work.\n \n\n\nJoin us for an open house to learn about ADVOT@Ritualwell\, a creative home for poets\, liturgists\, ritual creators\, songwriters\, and other Jewish artists. Meet fellow writers\, learn more about ADVOT & engage in a creative writing prompt! learn more about ADVOT here.\n\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/advotritualwell-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Mitzvot through Poetry: An In-depth Immersion into Mikveh\, Challah and Candle-Lighting
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, November 13\, 20\, and 27 and December 4\, 11\, and 18\, 2024\n12-1:30 p.m. EST\n$250\n \nAmong the 613 mitzvot (commandments) derived from the Hebrew Bible and observed through centuries of study and practice\, three specific mitzvot have traditionally been assigned to women: lighting Shabbat candles\, baking challah\, and observing mikveh for family purity laws. These commandments prompt many questions regarding their relevance for us today\, including:\n\nWhat do these mitzvot symbolize?\nWere they truly intended to be exclusively for women?\nHow can we interpret them in terms of contemporary gender fluidity and feminist perspectives?\nIn what ways can we align these commandments with present-day spirituality and humanist values?\nHow can we integrate these practices into modern life? Why might we choose not to?\n\n \nJoin Rachel Neve-Midbar to delve into these inquiries during a thought-provoking Ritualwell Immersion. Discover your connection to these powerful mitzvot through the exploration of ancient and modern poetry. Create your own poems inspired by our reading\, discussions and personal reflection.\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nRachel Neve-Midbar is a poet and essayist. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Salaam of Birds\, was chosen by Dorothy Barresi for the Patricia Bibby First Book Prize and was published by Tebot Bach in January 2020. She is also the author of the 2014 chapbook\, What the Light Reveals. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. A current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California\, Rachel is also editor of Stained: An Anthology of Writing about Menstruation for the AuntFlo2020 Project. More at rachelnevemidbar.com.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/mitzvot-through-poetry-an-in-depth-immersion-into-mikveh-challah-and-candle-lighting/
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