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Writing with Rebbe Nachman: Creating our own Spiritual Stories

Facilitator: Daniel Raphael Silverstein

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Jewish texts, Kabbalah, Rebbe Nachman

Zoom

Learn about and discuss some of Rebbe Nachman's key stories, discovering the meaning that they hold for us today. Rebbe Nachman's stories will inspire our own wisdom story writing.

$250
Recurring

Honoring Loved Ones in Writing & Art

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Cathleen Cohen

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: ancestors, creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Memoir, Poetry, visual art

Zoom

Now more than ever, we need the wisdom of our ancestors, and creative expression serves as a beautiful avenue for this connection. Join us to explore, activate and express your love and appreciation for the teachers, friends and loved ones who have profoundly influenced your life and to invoke their wisdom within your own.

$180

Recurring

Discover Your Torah: Preparing for Shavuot with Meditation and Poetry

Facilitator: Elana Bell and Rabbi Dan Liben

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, jewish meditation, Jewish spirituality, mindfulness, Poetry, Shavuot, Torah

Zoom

Join a special collaboration between the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Ritualwell to prepare for Shavuot through mindfulness meditation, poetry and generative writing practices.

$150

The Creative Fire of Folklore

Facilitator: Susan Comninos

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, creativity, folklore, Poetry

Zoom

Use your family or community's sayings in poems that explore how the past informs the present. Come prepared to have fun, while trying your hand at techniques for folding both folklore and imagery into poetry that's at once individual and universal.

Free

Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading

Facilitator: Adva Chattler and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Program Type: ADVOT, Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Poetry, Writing

Zoom

Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish writers as we share new work from our fourth anthology!

Free

Recurring

Finding Shekhinah

Facilitator: Joy Ladin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality

Zoom

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

$180
Recurring

Finding Shekhinah

Facilitator: Joy Ladin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality

Zoom

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

$180
Recurring

Finding Shekhinah

Facilitator: Joy Ladin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality

Zoom

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

$180
Recurring

Finding Shekhinah

Facilitator: Joy Ladin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality

Zoom

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

$180

Recurring

Elul Journey Towards Yizkor

Facilitator: Trisha Arlin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor

Zoom

Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.

$180
Recurring

Elul Journey Towards Yizkor

Facilitator: Trisha Arlin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor

Zoom

Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.

$180
Recurring

Elul Journey Towards Yizkor

Facilitator: Trisha Arlin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor

Zoom

Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.

$180

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