Calendar
Harmonizing Your Inner Tribes: The Book of Exodus as a Route to Resilience
The Exodus is both an inspiring and a cautionary tale -- an apt model through which to explore the self as comprising many different aspects and attributes, subject to challenges from both within and without. In this class, we will delve into four consecutive Torah portions from the Book of Exodus, considering the challenges and breakthroughs of the narrative as an instruction manual on how to cultivate an internal harmonization of self that can withstand the challenges of an uncertain world.
Tuesday evenings - 7:30 - 9 pm CT online
January 28th, February 4th, 11th and 18th
Registration fee: $150
Taught by Dr. David Gottlieb
Harmonizing Your Inner Tribes: The Book of Exodus as a Route to Resilience
The Exodus is both an inspiring and a cautionary tale -- an apt model through which to explore the self as comprising many different aspects and attributes, subject to challenges from both within and without. In this class, we will delve into four consecutive Torah portions from the Book of Exodus, considering the challenges and breakthroughs of the narrative as an instruction manual on how to cultivate an internal harmonization of self that can withstand the challenges of an uncertain world.
Tuesday evenings - 7:30 - 9 pm CT online
January 28th, February 4th, 11th and 18th
Registration fee: $150
Taught by Dr. David Gottlieb
Harmonizing Your Inner Tribes: The Book of Exodus as a Route to Resilience
The Exodus is both an inspiring and a cautionary tale -- an apt model through which to explore the self as comprising many different aspects and attributes, subject to challenges from both within and without. In this class, we will delve into four consecutive Torah portions from the Book of Exodus, considering the challenges and breakthroughs of the narrative as an instruction manual on how to cultivate an internal harmonization of self that can withstand the challenges of an uncertain world.
Tuesday evenings - 7:30 - 9 pm CT online
January 28th, February 4th, 11th and 18th
Registration fee: $150
Taught by Dr. David Gottlieb
Harmonizing Your Inner Tribes: The Book of Exodus as a Route to Resilience
The Exodus is both an inspiring and a cautionary tale -- an apt model through which to explore the self as comprising many different aspects and attributes, subject to challenges from both within and without. In this class, we will delve into four consecutive Torah portions from the Book of Exodus, considering the challenges and breakthroughs of the narrative as an instruction manual on how to cultivate an internal harmonization of self that can withstand the challenges of an uncertain world.
Tuesday evenings - 7:30 - 9 pm CT online
January 28th, February 4th, 11th and 18th
Registration fee: $150
Taught by Dr. David Gottlieb
Event: Courageous Light: Hanukkah Teachings for Seeding Hope
Join Orot for an online learning session to explore Jewish texts and mindfulness practice to prepare for Hanukkah. Hanukkah is a festival that celebrates the power of light and courage during a season of darkness, and in this gathering, we will dive into teachings that will help us move into the celebration of the holiday with greater strength, fortitude, and trust in our own capacity to nurture light - in our lives, communities, and the world.
There is no cost to register.
Trusting in Our Children's Light: A Peaceful Parent Teaching for Hanukkah
Join us for a Peaceful Parent teaching for Hanukkah about how we can trust in our children's independent lights, even in challenging periods.
The Gift of Elul: Finding Our Footprints Home
Admission: $125.00
Location: Zoom
Each year, the Hebrew month of Elul offers us a gift - 4 weeks to step back from our routines and turn inwards to begin the work of cheshbon ha’nefesh - the inner accounting of our souls. This gift is precious and also daunting, and it helps to begin the work with a community of supportive peers. This Elul, we will all be asking new questions about ourselves, our communities, our identities in light of the challenging year we have experienced. The work of the High Holiday season is the work of Teshuva: a chance to return home to what is most essential and core to who we want to be in our lives. In this 4-session class, we will turn to Jewish texts - ancient and modern - and non-Jewish sources of wisdom to help open up these questions of our soul. The classes will interweave study, group discussion, private reflection, and exercises to craft your own rituals to guide you into the new Jewish year of 5785.
All are welcome.
The Horizon of Teshuva: The Spiritual Work of Forgetting, Remembering, and Opening
Join Orot for this special daylong retreat at the beautiful Elawa Farm.
September 17th, 2024 | 10 am - 3 pm
Elawa Farm - 1401 Middlefork Road, Lake Forest, IL
Cost: $165
In this special retreat for Elul, we will gather at the serene grounds of Elawa Farm for a day of learning, restoration, and reflection. We will use the concept, found in Jewish texts, of bein ha’shamshot - that mysterious, liminal period of time between day and night - to open up questions that Elul invites: where are we right now? Where do we want to be? In our individual lives, our relational lives, our lives with the Divine and with our communities? The month of Elul invites us to think about the horizon ahead and to begin the work of mapping out a path towards it. We will spend the day studying teachings, sharing conversation, enjoying mindful, reflective time among the gardens and savanna, singing, practicing yoga, and partaking in a farm-to-table vegetarian lunch. Join us to explore all of the special gifts of this special time of year in the Jewish calendar.
Open to all, all genders, all ages, all backgrounds.
The Gift of Elul: Finding Our Footprints Home
Admission: $125.00
Location: Zoom
Each year, the Hebrew month of Elul offers us a gift - 4 weeks to step back from our routines and turn inwards to begin the work of cheshbon ha’nefesh - the inner accounting of our souls. This gift is precious and also daunting, and it helps to begin the work with a community of supportive peers. This Elul, we will all be asking new questions about ourselves, our communities, our identities in light of the challenging year we have experienced. The work of the High Holiday season is the work of Teshuva: a chance to return home to what is most essential and core to who we want to be in our lives. In this 4-session class, we will turn to Jewish texts - ancient and modern - and non-Jewish sources of wisdom to help open up these questions of our soul. The classes will interweave study, group discussion, private reflection, and exercises to craft your own rituals to guide you into the new Jewish year of 5785.
All are welcome.
The Gift of Elul: Finding Our Footprints Home
Admission: $125.00
Location: Zoom
Each year, the Hebrew month of Elul offers us a gift - 4 weeks to step back from our routines and turn inwards to begin the work of cheshbon ha’nefesh - the inner accounting of our souls. This gift is precious and also daunting, and it helps to begin the work with a community of supportive peers. This Elul, we will all be asking new questions about ourselves, our communities, our identities in light of the challenging year we have experienced. The work of the High Holiday season is the work of Teshuva: a chance to return home to what is most essential and core to who we want to be in our lives. In this 4-session class, we will turn to Jewish texts - ancient and modern - and non-Jewish sources of wisdom to help open up these questions of our soul. The classes will interweave study, group discussion, private reflection, and exercises to craft your own rituals to guide you into the new Jewish year of 5785.
All are welcome.
National Cohort of Peaceful Grandparent
Join a transformative journey with our NEW National Cohort of Orot's Peaceful Grandparent Program, where spirituality, wisdom, and family bonds converge.
National Cohort of Peaceful Grandparent
Join a transformative journey with our NEW National Cohort of Orot's Peaceful Grandparent Program, where spirituality, wisdom, and family bonds converge.
National Cohort of Peaceful Grandparent
Join a transformative journey with our NEW National Cohort of Orot's Peaceful Grandparent Program, where spirituality, wisdom, and family bonds converge.
National Cohort of Peaceful Grandparent
Join a transformative journey with our NEW National Cohort of Orot's Peaceful Grandparent Program, where spirituality, wisdom, and family bonds converge.
A Pained Heart: Exploring Responsibility and Identity
This new course is a thought-provoking 4-class series running on Thursday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 am, starting May 16th through June 6th. This series aims to address pressing questions about Jewish identity, responsibility, and the balance between voice and silence in promoting peace and healing. Timed with the period of the Omer and leading up to Shavuot, it encourages participants to reflect on living lives that embody Torah today.
A Pained Heart: Exploring Responsibility and Identity
This new course is a thought-provoking 4-class series running on Thursday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 am, starting May 16th through June 6th. This series aims to address pressing questions about Jewish identity, responsibility, and the balance between voice and silence in promoting peace and healing. Timed with the period of the Omer and leading up to Shavuot, it encourages participants to reflect on living lives that embody Torah today.
A Pained Heart: Exploring Responsibility and Identity
This new course is a thought-provoking 4-class series running on Thursday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 am, starting May 16th through June 6th. This series aims to address pressing questions about Jewish identity, responsibility, and the balance between voice and silence in promoting peace and healing. Timed with the period of the Omer and leading up to Shavuot, it encourages participants to reflect on living lives that embody Torah today.
Stepping Out of Our Caves: Transforming Fear into Radiance
Join Orot for "Stepping Out of Our Caves: Transforming Fear into Radiance," a day retreat on May 21st, 2024, at Elawa Farm, Lake Forest, IL. Led by Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman, Jane Shapiro, and Deb Wineman, this event during the counting of the Omer offers a journey from Passover to Shavuot, focusing on Lag BaOmer's teachings. Experience ancient wisdom, mindfulness, a vegetarian lunch, and community, aiming to transform fear and isolation into courage and connection. Open to all, the retreat costs $165.