Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Text Study 5786 - Awareness in All Things: Rebbe Nachman of Breslov on the Weekly Torah Portion

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Rabbi Sam Feinsmith will provide a weekly selection on the Torah portion from one of the Hasidic classics. This offering is designed for seasoned students of Hasidic text and mindfulness practice.

Fire and Flow: Creativity and Mindfulness

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This course, led by Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife, will focus on the creative process, not for the sake of producing outcomes, but to explore how cultivating mindfulness in this arena can help us to bring more intention to our day-to-day lives.

Sitting with the Sefirot: A Kabbalistic Journey for Deepening Your Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Practice

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This course, taught by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith, will help you take your daily meditation practice to the next level through the Kabbalah’s mystical sefirot—lenses to help us channel, focus, and reveal the sublime light of our own Divine nature.

The Peaceful Parent Project

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In this six-week course from IJS and Orot, taught by Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman, parents will learn to reshape interactions with children, creating a more spiritually connected and mindful bond.

Text Study 5785: Open My Eyes

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Rabba Dr. Mira Neshama Niculescu will offer a year of weekly Jewish mindfulness teaching and guided practice informed by the Me’or Einayim and rooted in a theme drawn from the weekly Torah portions. This offering is designed for all learners.

Text Study 5785: Where the Light Comes Down

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A yearlong Text Study course from Rabbi Sam Feinsmith, with weekly selections on the Torah portion from the Hasidic classic Avodat Yisrael by renowned kabbalist Rabbi Yisroel Hopstein, the Maggid of Kozhnitz. This course is for seasoned learners.