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SUMMARY:More than Wishing: Creating a Happy New Year
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 30\, 2025\n12:00-1:00 p.m. EDT\n$18\n \n\nTraditionally\, we wish one another a “Happy New Year.” It is a warm and important custom to continue. And this year\, in a changing world that can feel overwhelming\, we can add another layer: the reminder that we are also invited to create a new year. Judaism offers us a framework for making this possible–through teshuvah (renewal of spirit and return to the holiest part of ourselves)\, tefillah (prayer and avodah\, the work of the heart and doing the right thing)\, and tzedakah (acts of justice and generosity). These timeless practices remind us that while we cannot fix everything\, we can take meaningful steps to make the world better—within us and around us. In nurturing ourselves and acting with intention\, we become co-creators of a more whole and hopeful world.\n \nThis new booklet from Ritualwell is a companion for the sacred journey between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It offers poems\, prayers\, and prompts to help you co-create a year of meaning and hope.\n \nWhether used for personal introspection or shared in community\, these offerings will guide you in crafting a year that is not only happy\, but deeply meaningful.\n \nWith your purchase of the booklet\, you are warmly invited to join us for a special event on September 30 with mindfulness teacher Rabbi Jacob Staub: Meditation & Reflection for the Days of Awe.\n\n \nThis event will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nRabbi Jacob Staub is the director of Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations. He is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Philosophy and Spirituality at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College\, where he continues to direct the Program in Jewish Spiritual Direction. He served as editor of The Reconstructionist 1983-89. He co-authored with Rebecca Alpert\,  Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nGabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer is Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs. She is an author and educator whose work focuses on spirituality\, creativity and disability. Her personal essays have been featured in Tablet\, Shondaland\, NBCThink\, Wisdom Daily\, WHYY and many other publications and she has published several nonfiction books as well as plays for children. Gabrielle is currently working on a memoir about the power of intuition and ongoing conversations with her ancestors. She writes a Substack newsletter called “Journey With The Seasons\,” a weekly practice of meditative reading with creative self-expression prompts. Gabrielle holds a BFA in theater and creative writing from Emerson College and an MA in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. \n\n 
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