Singing: Ozi v’zimrat Yah va’yehi li li’shu’ah
This is a meditation to cultivate and integrate Ometz Lev, a strong heart, courage. The words of this opening niggun is a reminder that my strength comes from Yah, comes from Hashem and is sustained by the flow of spiritual goodness from the heavens.
I will now use a focus phrase, a mantra, to meditate and help to integrate a strong heart, courage, that is nourished and sustained by the heavens.
Yirat hashamayim, fear and awe of the heavens and Hashem, cultivate a strong heart to overcome the darkness within.
Yirat hashamayim, fear and awe of the heavens and Hashem, cultivate a strong heart to overcome the darkness within.
Yirat hashamayim, fear and awe of the heavens and Hashem, cultivate a strong heart and courage to overcome the darkness within.
Yirat hashamayim, fear and awe of the heavens and Hashem, cultivate a strong heart to overcome the darkness within.
Yirat hashamayim, fear and awe of the heavens and Hashem, cultivate a strong heart to overcome the darkness within.
Yirat hashamayim, fear and awe of the heavens and Hashem, cultivate a strong heart and courage to overcome the darkness within.
Yehudah Webster is passionate about ensuring the Jewish community’s commitment to the fight for racial justice and collective liberation. With an analysis of unconditional/revolutionary care, Yehudah has worked as an anti-oppression trainer and organizational consultant, developing unique programs to bring together communities that are often pitted against each other. He has presented in a wide variety of settings, including youth group conventions, college campuses, and staff development retreats for Jewish organizations. As a community organizer for Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), Yehudah supports JFREJ’s police accountability and transformative justice campaigns through grassroots efforts that include lobbying for legislative reform. Yehudah has worked on establishing a national support network for JOCs through his JFREJ leadership, working to provide the much needed institutional support marginalized Jewish communities of color need. He is a graduate of JFREJ’s Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship and Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program.
