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Kabbalah & Healing 2: The Sephirot and You
May
18

Kabbalah & Healing 2: The Sephirot and You

The Tree of Life ("Etz Chayim") is a central metaphor in Kabbalah. Its main components, the Sephirot, can be seen as the layers of consciousness that comprise human awareness, and that connect us with the Divine. In this chevrutah, led by Jeff Casper, we'll focus on six of the 10 Sephirot, one pair at a time, and explore how we experience them in our own lives and bodies. Through readings, discussion, and embodied exercises, we'll taste the particular flavor of Wholeness that each Sephira offers, and maybe even allow our own edges to soften in response.

[While this is the second Kabbalah and Healing offering, you don’t have to have attended the first one to attend this one. We did cover the Creation Myth in more detail than we’ll have time for this time around, so if you’d like to have some more background, please reach out to susan@newshul.org 

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Kabbalah & Healing 2: The Sephirot and You
Jun
1

Kabbalah & Healing 2: The Sephirot and You

The Tree of Life ("Etz Chayim") is a central metaphor in Kabbalah. Its main components, the Sephirot, can be seen as the layers of consciousness that comprise human awareness, and that connect us with the Divine. In this chevrutah, led by Jeff Casper, we'll focus on six of the 10 Sephirot, one pair at a time, and explore how we experience them in our own lives and bodies. Through readings, discussion, and embodied exercises, we'll taste the particular flavor of Wholeness that each Sephira offers, and maybe even allow our own edges to soften in response.

[While this is the second Kabbalah and Healing offering, you don’t have to have attended the first one to attend this one. We did cover the Creation Myth in more detail than we’ll have time for this time around, so if you’d like to have some more background, please reach out to susan@newshul.org 

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Kabbalah & Healing 2: The Sephirot and You
Jun
15

Kabbalah & Healing 2: The Sephirot and You

The Tree of Life ("Etz Chayim") is a central metaphor in Kabbalah. Its main components, the Sephirot, can be seen as the layers of consciousness that comprise human awareness, and that connect us with the Divine. In this chevrutah, led by Jeff Casper, we'll focus on six of the 10 Sephirot, one pair at a time, and explore how we experience them in our own lives and bodies. Through readings, discussion, and embodied exercises, we'll taste the particular flavor of Wholeness that each Sephira offers, and maybe even allow our own edges to soften in response.

[While this is the second Kabbalah and Healing offering, you don’t have to have attended the first one to attend this one. We did cover the Creation Myth in more detail than we’ll have time for this time around, so if you’d like to have some more background, please reach out to susan@newshul.org 

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Lessons In Tyranny
Feb
9

Lessons In Tyranny

Led by Rabbi David Ponet and Natalie Cohen

On Zoom

Democracies rarely collapse in a single moment; they erode slowly. As Hannah Arendt warned in The Origins of Totalitarianism, mass loneliness, the lure of simple narratives, and the breakdown of a shared reality can create the conditions for tyranny. And as Timothy Snyder argues in On Tyranny, authoritarianism often begins with the small things: accepting lies, normalizing cruelty, practicing “anticipatory obedience.”

Examining Arendt’s thinking on these questions, along with other thoughts leaders, this chevrutah will explore how democracies die—and what steps we can take right now to halt the decline. What acts of vigilance, courage, solidarity and spirit might keep democracy alive?

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Lessons In Tyranny
Jan
26

Lessons In Tyranny

Led by Rabbi David Ponet and Natalie Cohen

On Zoom

Democracies rarely collapse in a single moment; they erode slowly. As Hannah Arendt warned in The Origins of Totalitarianism, mass loneliness, the lure of simple narratives, and the breakdown of a shared reality can create the conditions for tyranny. And as Timothy Snyder argues in On Tyranny, authoritarianism often begins with the small things: accepting lies, normalizing cruelty, practicing “anticipatory obedience.”

Examining Arendt’s thinking on these questions, along with other thoughts leaders, this chevrutah will explore how democracies die—and what steps we can take right now to halt the decline. What acts of vigilance, courage, solidarity and spirit might keep democracy alive?

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Rosh Chodesh Chevrutah
Jan
19

Rosh Chodesh Chevrutah

Led By Elana Ponet

On Zoom

Thousands of years ago, our female ancestors gathered in the darkness of the new moon for communion with each other and the earth. Join us each month as we discover together how these new moon gatherings can connect us to each other, ourselves, our ancestors, and the wisdom of the Earth.

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Lessons In Tyranny
Jan
12

Lessons In Tyranny

Led by Rabbi David Ponet and Natalie Cohen

On Zoom

Democracies rarely collapse in a single moment; they erode slowly. As Hannah Arendt warned in The Origins of Totalitarianism, mass loneliness, the lure of simple narratives, and the breakdown of a shared reality can create the conditions for tyranny. And as Timothy Snyder argues in On Tyranny, authoritarianism often begins with the small things: accepting lies, normalizing cruelty, practicing “anticipatory obedience.”

Examining Arendt’s thinking on these questions, along with other thoughts leaders, this chevrutah will explore how democracies die—and what steps we can take right now to halt the decline. What acts of vigilance, courage, solidarity and spirit might keep democracy alive?

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