DAY ONE* (begins Saturday evening April 20, 2019, after sundown) Welcome to the first day of the journey. This week’s kavannah (intention) at the journey's beginning is Waking Up. Every journey begins with a call: the moment when we become aware. Whether the “call” is internal or external, quiet or quite loud, there are moments in our lives when Continue Reading
Walking the Jewish Spiritual Path: Sacred Texts, Poetry and Mindfulness Practices
starts Sunday April 19 3 Session Jewish Spiritual Journey Class with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Sundays April 19, 26; May 3 9:45 am - 11:15 am Valley Village, CA (Temple Beth Hillel) We will focus on “journey.” This three session course is an opportunity to explore in more depth some of the central themes of journey: deciding to leave what is known, the Continue Reading
“May You Be Blessed On Your Journey” Day 7
(Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count is a project of Rabbi Cindy Enger and Rabbi Jill Zimmerman. As Pesach moves to its close, so does the first week of the Omer. Beginnings and endings are powerful times. On this day, we arrive at the ending of this first part of our pilgrimage together and prepare to cross over into the next stage of our Continue Reading
Waking Up: Am I Present? Am I “enough?”
Welcome to the third day of Journey of the Soul. We* continue with this week’s kavannah (intention) Waking Up Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count On day one, we wrote of God’s call of Ayeka (Where are you?) to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:9) In response to this question of existential condition, the Torah tells us that Adam and Continue Reading
We Journey With Angels (from Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count a project of Rabbi Cindy Enger and Rabbi Jill Zimmerman)
Welcome to the fortieth day of the Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count. We continue with this week’s kavannah (intention), which is Becoming the Vision. We are intricately connected with what happens in the world. Jewish tradition gives us Shabbat each week as a moment to let go of the weekday world so that we can rest, renew and find peace. Yet, Continue Reading
