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  • April 2025

  • Fri 11
    Passover arrangement with a Hebrew Haggadah, a decorative silver cup on a plate, and matzah.

    Why is This Year’s Seder Different?

    April 11, 2025

    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.'

  • May 2025

  • Wed 7
    Desert landscape with distant mountains and a cluster of palm trees in the foreground.

    Discover Your Torah: Preparing for Shavuot with Meditation and Poetry

    May 7, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - May 21, 2025 @ 2:30 pm EDT Recurring

    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
  • Tue 13
    A water droplet hanging from the tip of a green leaf against a blurred green background.

    Mussar for This Moment

    May 13, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    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
  • Tue 20
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    Mussar for This Moment

    May 20, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    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
  • Tue 27
    A water droplet hanging from the tip of a green leaf against a blurred green background.

    Mussar for This Moment

    May 27, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    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
  • June 2025

  • Tue 3
    A water droplet hanging from the tip of a green leaf against a blurred green background.

    Mussar for This Moment

    June 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    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
  • Tue 10
    A water droplet hanging from the tip of a green leaf against a blurred green background.

    Mussar for This Moment

    June 10, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    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
  • Tue 24
    Three people sit around a campfire near the shore at dusk, with the sea and trees in the background.

    The Creative Fire of Folklore

    June 24, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

    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
  • Thu 26
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    Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading

    June 26, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

    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
  • July 2025

  • Thu 10
    Woman sitting cross-legged by water, eyes closed, hand on chest, wrapped in a cozy blanket outdoors.

    Deep Body Poetry

    July 10, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women

    Zoom

    Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.

    $180
  • Thu 17
    Woman sitting cross-legged by water, eyes closed, hand on chest, wrapped in a cozy blanket outdoors.

    Deep Body Poetry

    July 17, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women

    Zoom

    Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.

    $180
  • Thu 24
    Woman sitting cross-legged by water, eyes closed, hand on chest, wrapped in a cozy blanket outdoors.

    Deep Body Poetry

    July 24, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women

    Zoom

    Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.

    $180
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