Every Jewish festival is an opening to deeper connection with ourselves, others and the Divine.

 

These teachings and practice instructions will help you enliven these connections and harness the transformative potential of these sacred moments.​

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The teachings are listed in the order of the calendar, beginning with our preparations for the New Year of Rosh Hashanah.

 

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High Holidays

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• Preparation for High Holidays: Spiritual Accounting

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• The Kabbalah of Rosh Hashanah - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Rosh Hashanah: Sweetening the Judgements - Yiscah Smith

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• Preparing for Rosh Hashanah - Sabrina Burger

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• Paradoxical Balance - A Rosh Hashanah Collage by Chana-Toni Whitmont

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• New Heart (Rosh Hashanah) - original song and accompanying source shee

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• You're My Light (Psalm 27 Redux) - original song, lesson plans and sources

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• Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur: Radical Forgiveness Meditation

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• Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur During a Pandemic - Lane Igoudin

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• Yom Kippur: Vidui for Citizens of Polarized Societies

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• Yom Kippur: Transcending Shame - R' Ami Silver

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• Yom Kippur: Positive Confession (Vidui)

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• Yom Kippur: The Teshuvah of 'Perhaps' - Yiscah Smith

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• The Journey to Sukkot - Nadav Slovin

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• Sukkot: Embracing Embodiment - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Sukkot: Immersing in the Shechinah (Divine Presence) - R' Lauren Tuchman

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• The End of the Festival Marathon - Hoshana Rabba, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah - R' Daniel Silverstein

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Chanukah

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• Light: A Chanukah Guide - Rabbi Bluth

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• Chanukah Visualization

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• Chanukah Teaching: The Hidden Flask - Rabbah Dr. Mira Weil

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• Kabbalah and the Hidden Light of Chanukah - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• The Paradox of Chanukah - Nadav Slovin

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• Chanukah: The Same Light  - original song and accompanying source sheet​​​​

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• Tevet (The End of Chanukah) - Tiferet Welch

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Tu B'Shvat​

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• Rosh Chodesh Shvat and Tu B'Shvat - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Rising Sap: Tu B'Shvat Manual - Rabbi Bluth

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• The Significance of Tu B'Shvat with Rabbah Dr. Mira Weil

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• Going Deeper into the Tu B'Shvat Seder - R' Mordechai Zeller

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• A Tu B'Shvat Ritual for Healing and Growth

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• Tu B'Shvat Seder Guide and Source Sheet - R' Daniel Silverstein​

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Purim

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• A Sound Journey for Purim - Rabbi Bluth​

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• Purim: Tasting the Tree of Life - R' Ami Silver

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• Purim in Hard Times - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Purim: Celebrating Before Redemption - Nadav Slovin

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• Purim Meditation: Cultivating Not-Knowing​​

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• Purim: Open to Your True Knowing - Chana-Toni Whitmont​​​

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• Eichacha: A Purim Teaching​ - Sarah Chandler

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• A Purim Meditation for Resilience - R' Daniel Silverstein

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Pesach

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• Passover Seder Guide 2024: A Haggadah Companion - Rabbi Bluth

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• An Ecological Perspective on the Song of Songs - Sue Gurland

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• Wading Into The Reeds - Chana-Toni Whitmont

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• The Birth of Freedom: A Haggadah Companion for 5783 - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Pesach: Breaking the Matzah - Sabrina Burger

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• Pesach: In Every Generation - original song and accompanying source sheet

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• Pesach Family Therapy - R' Mordechai Zeller

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• Spiritual Guidance for Your Pesach Seder - R' Ami Silver​

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• Pesach Guided Meditation

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Lag B'Omer

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• Lag B'Omer: Who, What & Why?

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• Lag B'Omer: Contacting the Secrets Within - R' Ami Silver

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• Lag B'Omer: Spiritual Revelation of the Inner Torah - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Lag B'Omer: De Leon's Palimpset​ - Daniel Gouly

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Shavuot

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• Shavuot: Union with the Divine - Yiscah Smith

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• Shavuot: Creativity and Pleasure - R' Ami Silver

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• Shavuot: The Kabbalah of Loving Integration - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Shavuot: Circling the Mountain - original song and source sheet​​​​​​

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• Shavuot: Sinai Visualization

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• Shavuot: On Receiving Resonance - Chana-Toni Whitmont

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The Three Weeks and Tu B'Av

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• The Three Weeks of Mourning and Tisha B'Av: A Three-Part Exploration

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• Tisha B'Av: Allowing What Is - R' Ami Silver

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• The Spiritual Journey of the Three Weeks - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Av: The Raw Material of the Notes - Tiferet Welch

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• Tisha B'Av - Eicha 2023 - Chana-Toni Whitmont​​

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• Tisha B'Av in Times of Polarization - R' Daniel Silverstein

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• Tisha B'Av: The Mathematics of Crumbling - Chana-Toni Whitmont

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• The Heart Work of Tu B'Av

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