Sefirot HaOmer 5782 / 2022
An Omer Journey with Rabbi Diane Elliot
Mondays, April 18 – May 30, 2022
12 noon Pacific Time
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Join Rabbi Diane Elliot as she guides you through the wilderness from Pesach to Shavu’ot, from constriction to expanded consciousness. During this potent seven-week journey you’ll encounter the Kabbalistic Tree of Life; you’ll learn to read the map of the Sefirot in a deep and engaged way; and you’ll receive support––through study, chant, meditation, and conversation––to call in the particular Torah (spiritual teaching) that your soul is in need of this year. Arrive with an open heart, a water bottle, and writing or drawing materials. No experience required.
Rabbi Diane Elliot is a spiritual teacher, ritual leader, dancer, writer, somatic therapist, and spiritual director based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ordained at the Academy for Jewish Religion California, she served as a spiritual leader of the Aquarian Minyan from 2006-2009 and currently serves as a program director for ALEPH, a founding steward of Taproot , and founding member and faculty of the Embodied Jewish Wisdom Network. Rabbi Diane inspires her students to become clearer channels for Presence through awareness and movement practices, chant, and nuanced interpretations of Jewish sacred text. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Ha-Yom Yom, This Is the Day, Poems inspired by the practice of counting the Omer.
Lag b'Omer with Special Guest Josh Kornbluth
Thursday April 29 at 4pm Pacific time
Movie producer, writer, and teacher Josh Kornbluth has most recently hosted and performed “Citizen Brain,” a series of autobiographical monologues for theater audiences. Since January 2017, he has been an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute; he also served a stint as Hellman Visiting Artist at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center.
Our Aquarian Minyan talk on this most resplendent day of the Omer will concern the brain, aging, and our highest ethical value, Empathy.
We are building a "galactic" Chesed-ic community and would love you to join!
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