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SUMMARY:Exploring the Truth of This Moment
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays February 6 & 13\, 2025\n12:00-1:30pm EST\n$54\n \n\nDuring times of global uncertainty and change\, we can turn to Jewish texts to help us move through our fear and isolation towards deeper\, sustaining truths. The challenges of our time may feel uniquely modern\, but throughout history many of our ancestors have grappled with similar spiritual issues: How do I act from a place of hope? How do I envision beyond loss? How do I have faith in the world around me?\n \nJoin Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner\, a climate change chaplain and innovative spiritual leader\, to delve into the questions that are keeping you up at night. Rabbi Nitkin-Kaner will guide us in using Talmudic and aggadic midrash in translation and creative practices to help us find courage\, resilience and a sense of ease in a changing world.\n \nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n\n\n \nRabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner is a meditation teacher\, climate change chaplain\, and educator who leads with warmth\, curiosity\, gentle humor\, and compassion. Over the past 15 years\, she has worked in prisons\, hospitals\, and congregations to steady folks through hard times. \nExploring Apocalypse is an extension of her rabbinic and pastoral care work (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College\, 2016)\, and is shaped by additional professional trainings in Climate Psychology (California Institute of Integral Studies\, 2022)\, Clinical Pastoral Education (East Jefferson General Hospital\, 2017 and Bellevue Hospital\, 2013)\, and certified yoga and meditation teacher training (Yoga Sanctuary Academy\, 2011)\, as well as graduate work in intergenerational trauma narratives (University of Toronto\, 2008). \n\n  \n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n\n \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/exploring-the-truth-of-this-moment/2025-02-06/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Creating Your Own Meaningful Tu B’Shvat Rituals
DESCRIPTION:February 12\, 2025\, \n12-1:30 p.m. EST\n \nRituals serve not only as a source of comfort but also as a means to honor our history and cultivate our own legacies. Inspired by the birth of her son on the birthday of the trees\, Wendy A. Horwitz\, author of Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments\, was inspired to imagine Tu B’shvat as a time to deepen her personal ties to the earth\, trees\, and Jewish wisdom through creative rituals. In this Ritualwell event\, Wendy will guide us in exploring narratives and engaging in discussion aimed at helping us revitalize our personal Tu B’Shvat rituals. Reflect on your connections to this Jewish celebration of nature and discover new ideas to create your own meaningful Tu B’Shvat rituals.\n \n\nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n\n \nWendy A. Horwitz is the author of Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments. Her essays have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Afterimage\, Neurology (Humanities Section)\, Jewish Literary Journal\, Intrepid Times\, and McClatchy-Tribune News Service\, among others. Originally trained as a pediatric psychologist\, she lives in Philadelphia\, where she teaches writing and health humanities.\n \n\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/creating-your-own-meaningful-tu-bshvat-rituals/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Free
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Truth of This Moment
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays February 6 & 13\, 2025\n12:00-1:30pm EST\n$54\n \n\nDuring times of global uncertainty and change\, we can turn to Jewish texts to help us move through our fear and isolation towards deeper\, sustaining truths. The challenges of our time may feel uniquely modern\, but throughout history many of our ancestors have grappled with similar spiritual issues: How do I act from a place of hope? How do I envision beyond loss? How do I have faith in the world around me?\n \nJoin Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner\, a climate change chaplain and innovative spiritual leader\, to delve into the questions that are keeping you up at night. Rabbi Nitkin-Kaner will guide us in using Talmudic and aggadic midrash in translation and creative practices to help us find courage\, resilience and a sense of ease in a changing world.\n \nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n\n\n \nRabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner is a meditation teacher\, climate change chaplain\, and educator who leads with warmth\, curiosity\, gentle humor\, and compassion. Over the past 15 years\, she has worked in prisons\, hospitals\, and congregations to steady folks through hard times. \nExploring Apocalypse is an extension of her rabbinic and pastoral care work (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College\, 2016)\, and is shaped by additional professional trainings in Climate Psychology (California Institute of Integral Studies\, 2022)\, Clinical Pastoral Education (East Jefferson General Hospital\, 2017 and Bellevue Hospital\, 2013)\, and certified yoga and meditation teacher training (Yoga Sanctuary Academy\, 2011)\, as well as graduate work in intergenerational trauma narratives (University of Toronto\, 2008). \n\n  \n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n\n \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/exploring-the-truth-of-this-moment/2025-02-13/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Writing with Rebbe Nachman: Creating our own Spiritual Stories
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, February 17\, 24 & March  3\, 10\, 17 and 24\, 2025\n1:00-2:30 p.m. EST\n$250\n \nRebbe Nachman of Breslov (1772 – 1810) is an enigmatic figure whose life and teaching still exert enormous influence across the Jewish world. The stories of Rebbe Nachman draw upon deep\, archetypal themes in our consciousness. These stories often read like fantastical children’s tales\, or Kafka-esque puzzles\, posing us questions intended to provoke awakening. They are based upon Rebbe Nachman’s profound grasp of Torah and Kabbalah\, and have also been read in the light of broader creative and intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Existentialism. Rebbe Nachman himself said that the stories were his deepest\, most powerful teachings.\n \nJoin Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein to learn about and discuss some of Rebbe Nachman’s key stories\, discovering the meaning that they hold for us today. Then\, building on this inspiration\, we will take time to create our own stories\, or at least begin them. There will also be time for optional sharing and feedback\, so we can benefit from one another’s wisdom and perspective on what we have created.\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 \nDaniel Raphael Silverstein is a rabbi\, educator\, meditation teacher and MC/poet. He lives in Israel with his family\, where he directs Applied Jewish Spirituality\, an online portal which makes the transformative spiritual wisdom of our tradition accessible to all who seek it. Daniel is an accredited teacher of Jewish Mindfulness Meditation and regularly teaches classes and retreats. He was born and raised in London and received a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MA from Warwick University. After receiving semikha from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School\, he served as Director of Jewish Life and Learning for Hillel of Stanford University in Palo Alto\, CA. Daniel has performed and facilitated all over the world as a spoken word artist\, MC\, and creative educator\, and the Jewish Week selected him as one of their “36 Under 36” young innovators reshaping the Jewish community. Daniel is a cofounder of Lines of Faith\, a Muslim-Jewish hip hop and poetry collective that uses performances and workshops to challenge prejudice and build meaningful bonds between communities.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/writing-with-rebbe-nachman-creating-our-own-spiritual-stories/2025-02-17/
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CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Writing with Rebbe Nachman: Creating our own Spiritual Stories
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, February 17\, 24 & March  3\, 10\, 17 and 24\, 2025\n1:00-2:30 p.m. EST\n$250\n \nRebbe Nachman of Breslov (1772 – 1810) is an enigmatic figure whose life and teaching still exert enormous influence across the Jewish world. The stories of Rebbe Nachman draw upon deep\, archetypal themes in our consciousness. These stories often read like fantastical children’s tales\, or Kafka-esque puzzles\, posing us questions intended to provoke awakening. They are based upon Rebbe Nachman’s profound grasp of Torah and Kabbalah\, and have also been read in the light of broader creative and intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Existentialism. Rebbe Nachman himself said that the stories were his deepest\, most powerful teachings.\n \nJoin Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein to learn about and discuss some of Rebbe Nachman’s key stories\, discovering the meaning that they hold for us today. Then\, building on this inspiration\, we will take time to create our own stories\, or at least begin them. There will also be time for optional sharing and feedback\, so we can benefit from one another’s wisdom and perspective on what we have created.\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 \nDaniel Raphael Silverstein is a rabbi\, educator\, meditation teacher and MC/poet. He lives in Israel with his family\, where he directs Applied Jewish Spirituality\, an online portal which makes the transformative spiritual wisdom of our tradition accessible to all who seek it. Daniel is an accredited teacher of Jewish Mindfulness Meditation and regularly teaches classes and retreats. He was born and raised in London and received a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MA from Warwick University. After receiving semikha from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School\, he served as Director of Jewish Life and Learning for Hillel of Stanford University in Palo Alto\, CA. Daniel has performed and facilitated all over the world as a spoken word artist\, MC\, and creative educator\, and the Jewish Week selected him as one of their “36 Under 36” young innovators reshaping the Jewish community. Daniel is a cofounder of Lines of Faith\, a Muslim-Jewish hip hop and poetry collective that uses performances and workshops to challenge prejudice and build meaningful bonds between communities.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/writing-with-rebbe-nachman-creating-our-own-spiritual-stories/2025-02-24/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Voices of Disability
DESCRIPTION: \nVoices 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.\n\n\n\nWhen you purchase this new collection\, you will also receive a recording of our ‘Writing Disability Torah’ event. \n\n\nIn the event\, we explore the wisdom found in Disability Torah and how we can connect our personal experiences to these texts. In the recording\, you’ll be guided in a text study followed by a creative writing exercise to help you begin crafting your own piece of Disability Torah. \n\n\nThis conversation was led by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer from Ritualwell and Rabbi Ash Sofman from Thriving Communities at Reconstructing Judaism with RRC rabbinical students Mat Wilson and Rakhel Silverman-Gitin. Mat and Rakhel have both received Auerbach Ignition grants to support their initiatives in this area. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nGabrielle Kaplan-Mayer is Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs. She writes frequently about disability\, spirituality and creativity and edits the Jewish Disability Inclusion News. Previously she directed Whole Community Inclusion\, working to make the Philadelphia Jewish community more accessible. Her book The Little Gate-Crasher was selected as a Jewish Disability Awareness\, Acceptance & Inclusion Month book selection.\n \n \nRakhel Silverman-Gitin is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College whose Auerbach Ignition grantt aims to educate and engage the community of Or Haneshamah\, Ottawa’s Reconstructionist Congregation\, on disability justice\, and place it in conversation with the tradition of Shabbat. Instead of being focused on how to address the “issue” of disability within Judaism (i.e. what Jewish text thinks of disability)\, this project is focused on what Jews can learn from the wisdom of the disability community regarding rest and joy\, and how to apply these teachings to deepen personal and communal Shabbat practices.\n \nRabbi Asher Sofman is Reconstructing Judaism’s Justice\, Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Program Coordinator who  has curated Disability and Accessibility resources for the movement. Ash studied creative writing and world literature at Brown University\, earning a B.A. with honors in Literary Arts and is a 2023 graduate of RRC. He has served as an associate chaplain at continuing-care retirement communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.\n \n\n \nMat Wilson (they/them) enjoys board and video games\, road trips big and small\, and any opportunity to be in the water. They discovered a love for Torah study through the art of source sheet creation and are currently expanding their written reflections through the Disability Torah Project. Outside of their free time\, Mat is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and is pursuing a Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/writing-disability-torah/
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