Recurring

Humanizing Mitzvot Through Poetry

Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish women, mitzvot, Poetry, ritual

Zoom

Discover your connection to powerful mitzvot through the exploration of ancient and modern poetry. Create your own poems inspired by our reading, discussions and personal reflection.

$180
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

Humanizing Mitzvot Through Poetry

Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish women, mitzvot, Poetry, ritual

Zoom

Discover your connection to powerful mitzvot through the exploration of ancient and modern poetry. Create your own poems inspired by our reading, discussions and personal reflection.

$180

Why is This Year’s Seder Different?

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.'

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
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Mussar for This Moment

Facilitator: Rabbi Joshua Boettinger

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish wisdom, mussar, Poetry

Zoom

In periods of uncertainty, Mussar can be a practice that helps us see more clearly and not merge with our sense of despair. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger for a four session immersion where we will explore this ancient lineage tradition – studying middot (precepts) and practices from the Mussar masters. In each session, we will also read and compose poetry related to Mussar themes – poetry of proximity, relationality, perplexity, responsibility.

$180
Recurring

Mussar for This Moment

Facilitator: Rabbi Joshua Boettinger

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish wisdom, mussar, Poetry

Zoom

In periods of uncertainty, Mussar can be a practice that helps us see more clearly and not merge with our sense of despair. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger for a four session immersion where we will explore this ancient lineage tradition – studying middot (precepts) and practices from the Mussar masters. In each session, we will also read and compose poetry related to Mussar themes – poetry of proximity, relationality, perplexity, responsibility.

$180
Recurring

Mussar for This Moment

Facilitator: Rabbi Joshua Boettinger

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish wisdom, mussar, Poetry

Zoom

In periods of uncertainty, Mussar can be a practice that helps us see more clearly and not merge with our sense of despair. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger for a four session immersion where we will explore this ancient lineage tradition – studying middot (precepts) and practices from the Mussar masters. In each session, we will also read and compose poetry related to Mussar themes – poetry of proximity, relationality, perplexity, responsibility.

$180

Recurring

Mussar for This Moment

Facilitator: Rabbi Joshua Boettinger

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish wisdom, mussar, Poetry

Zoom

In periods of uncertainty, Mussar can be a practice that helps us see more clearly and not merge with our sense of despair. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger for a four session immersion where we will explore this ancient lineage tradition – studying middot (precepts) and practices from the Mussar masters. In each session, we will also read and compose poetry related to Mussar themes – poetry of proximity, relationality, perplexity, responsibility.

$180
Recurring

Mussar for This Moment

Facilitator: Rabbi Joshua Boettinger

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, Jewish wisdom, mussar, Poetry

Zoom

In periods of uncertainty, Mussar can be a practice that helps us see more clearly and not merge with our sense of despair. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger for a four session immersion where we will explore this ancient lineage tradition – studying middot (precepts) and practices from the Mussar masters. In each session, we will also read and compose poetry related to Mussar themes – poetry of proximity, relationality, perplexity, responsibility.

$180

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

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