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Service for Healing and Wholeness
For female identified people only. This healing service featuring traditional texts and contemporary music will create an atmosphere for deep learning, prayer, and spiritual healing.
Find out more »Mental Health Shabbat
This unique Mental Health Shabbat Service combines touching stories by congregants about their journeys with mental health, prayers for healing, and music and songs that uplift the spirit. Stories and information about mental health will be presented by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and the Ezra Network of Jewish Family Service. A special Mi Shebeirach healing prayer will be chanted for those struggling with mental illness. Participants will offer inspiring readings that address the need for openness and inclusion…
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A service to provide hope and healing for ourselves during these challenging times.
Find out more »Proactive Well-Being
Our teaching on Refuah over two Shabbatot will focus on "preventive care" and will involve teaching about three interrelated concepts from the Kabbalah: Hochmah (wisdom), Binah (discernment) and Da'at (knowledge). Each of these terms expresses different kinds of knowing and spiritual experience and each one of these terms involves different spiritual practices. After completing this workshop, your relationship with the Sh’ma will be renewed. You will have new sensations, emotions, and insights to deepen future encounters with Judaism’s quintessential sacred…
Find out more »Kabbalat Shabbat Healing Service
We will hold out first-ever Kabbalat Shabbat Healing Service. As part of our service, we will study the uniqueness of healing as we age. (For residents of Fountainview only)
Find out more »Healing the Broken Jewish Soul After a Child’s Suicide: An Illustrated Book Talk
Following Shabbat services, author Susan Auerbach will share excerpts and discuss themes from her grief memoir, "I’ll Write Your Name on Every Beach: A Mother’s Quest for Comfort, Courage & Clarity After Suicide Loss." Hear how ritual, text, spiritual practice, and community became both containers for expressing grief and resources for coping with traumatic loss and will conclude with questions and comments from the audience, as well as a book signing. Dr. Auerbach, a CSUN professor and twice a…
Find out more »Proactive Well-being
Our teaching on Refuah over two Shabbatot will focus on "preventive care" and will involve teaching about three interrelated concepts from the Kabbalah: Hochmah (wisdom), Binah (discernment) and Da'at (knowledge). Each of these terms expresses different kinds of knowing and spiritual experience and each one of these terms involves different spiritual practices. These practices can lead to a more conscious and meaningful life and greater well being overall. We will have two discussions on this theme: Shabbat morning April 21…
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