Date & Time of Workshop: Tues. Jan. 10, 2023 3:45-5:00pm MT
As we wander in the wilderness together, how can we retain our simcha, meaning both happiness and a close connection with the Holy Blessed One? How can we relate skillfully to our inclination toward self-interested disconnection (our yetzer ha’ra) while encouraging our yetzer ha’tov? Through text study and discussion, we will explore the Baal Shem Tov’s teachings about the two jesters with a place in the World to Come, and God’s desires that we serve with joy and greet our yetzer ha’ra with wise vulnerability. Knowledge of Hebrew welcome but not required.
Nadya Gross is a rabbi, spiritual director, co-founder & CPO of Yerusha; Director of the AOP Hashpa’ah Training Program and co-Rabbi of Pardes Levavot, Boulder. Nadya transmits her grandmother’s kabbalah in a two-year wisdom school. She co-authored, with Rabbi Malka Drucker, Embracing Wisdom: Soaring in the Second Half of Life.
Lori Klein, a rabbi and chaplain, works at Stanford Hospital and Montage Health. She has taught on spiritual care, cultural humility, listening, resilience. Her essay, “Cultural Humility and Reverent Curiosity: Spiritual Care with and Beyond Norms,” appears in Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care: Challenges of Care in a Neoliberal Age.
As we wander in the wilderness together, how can we retain our simcha, meaning both happiness and a close connection with the Holy Blessed One? How can we relate skillfully to our inclination toward self-interested disconnection (our yetzer ha’ra) while encouraging our yetzer ha’tov? Through text study and discussion, we will explore the Baal Shem Tov’s teachings about the two jesters with a place in the World to Come, and God’s desires that we serve with joy and greet our yetzer ha’ra with wise vulnerability. Knowledge of Hebrew welcome but not required.
Nadya Gross is a rabbi, spiritual director, co-founder & CPO of Yerusha; Director of the AOP Hashpa’ah Training Program and co-Rabbi of Pardes Levavot, Boulder. Nadya transmits her grandmother’s kabbalah in a two-year wisdom school. She co-authored, with Rabbi Malka Drucker, Embracing Wisdom: Soaring in the Second Half of Life.
Lori Klein, a rabbi and chaplain, works at Stanford Hospital and Montage Health. She has taught on spiritual care, cultural humility, listening, resilience. Her essay, “Cultural Humility and Reverent Curiosity: Spiritual Care with and Beyond Norms,” appears in Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care: Challenges of Care in a Neoliberal Age.
