OHALAH 2023 CONFERENCE
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​Wisdom for Travelers from the Baal Shem Tov Rabbi Nadya Gross and Rabbi Lori Klein​

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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.

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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.

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