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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• Preparation for High Holidays: Spiritual Accounting

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

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• The Kabbalah of Rosh Hashanah - R' Daniel Silverstein

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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 sheet

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

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• Sukkot: Embracing Embodiment - R' Daniel Silverstein

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

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• Chanukah Visualization

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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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• 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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• Tevet (The End of Chanukah) - Tiferet Welch

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

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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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• A Sound Journey for Purim - Rabbi Bluth​

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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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• A Purim Meditation for Resilience - R' Daniel Silverstein

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

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

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• Eichacha: A Purim Teaching​ - Sarah Chandler

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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: 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: Union with the Divine - Yiscah Smith

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

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

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• ​Shavuot: Creativity and Pleasure - R' Ami Silver

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• Shavuot: Sinai Visualization

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

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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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• The Heart Work of Tu B'Av

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