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Mussar is a path of contemplative practices and exercises that help you become aware of the habit patterns that stop you from fulfilling you fullest potential. Through your study of Mussar you identify and refine your character traits. While Mussar has its own language and integrity, it has many parallels teachings to Kabbalah. If you have never heard...

Referenced in the Talmud (Sanh. 65b, 67b), the enigmatic and poetic Sefer Yetzirah is a masterpiece of Jewish mysticism. Join Rabbi Sara Brandes for this text-based exploration of the architecture of the cosmos, as described in this ancient work. Though no Hebrew knowledge is required, this class works from the text in both Hebrew and translation....

” There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”~ Leonard Cohen Please join us for this workshop on Kabbalistic and contemporary sources and conversations about light, darkness, hope, grief and resilience.

Crystals have electro-magnetic and are vehicles of the universe. They can activate and house energy within them which allows us to tap into the universal energy and access its information. These time capsules creatively relate to our soul purpose, intentions and activate the magnetic order of the universe.   Let us bring the power of balance...

In this interactive webinar Frank Ostaseki will introduce his The Five Invitations, principles that show us how to wake up fully to our lives. Best understood as practices for anyone navigating a life transition, coping with loss or serious illness or a personal crisis, The Five Invitations guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness....

Full Course name: Mapping the Journey: Re-envisioning Decisions About the End of Life End of life is a developmental stage, which is experienced by all patients and requires a unique set of skills by their caregivers. However, those studying nursing, medicine and other allied professions are usually not taught how their patients die. The absence of...

What if you slept? And what if in your sleep your dreamed? And what if in your dream you went to Heaven? And there you plucked a strange Flower: And what if when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand. Samuel Taylor Coleridor (1777-1834)    Dreaming is one of the most ancient medicines and shamanic practices. It is here when we...

Many of us are familiar with the cycle of weekly Torah readings that span the year beginning on the Shabbat following Simchat Torah.  Less well known are the multitude of commentaries that the Hasidic masters and other rabbis and scholars have developed over the centuries to examine the profound spiritual and kabbalistic teachings that underpin...

What if we re-imagined the end of life as a vital and purposeful stage of being fully human? In a death-phobic culture, practices that wake us up to our mortality are countercultural and radical acts. How do we learn and practice this particular path of awakening? To imagine new possibilities, we benefit from drawing out of a different well of thinking...

All spiritual traditions seek the source of our existence in the no-thing. Kabbalah’s core concept of Holding Opposites leads us to appreciate that we are both no-thing and something arising simultaneously. We will explore the higher realms of the Sefirot of Keter (Crown) called Ayin, a meditative state to be entered into on our spiritual journeys....