Learning Together 

(Option B)

Journeying with the Torah:

Week by Week, Season by Season, Moment to Moment

Torah study and practice 

with Rabbi Yael Levy

I will make known to them the paths to walk and the practices to cultivate. (Exodus 18:20)

Each day the world is created anew and each day we have the opportunity to step into full relationship with this mysterious unfolding that is our life.

In this Torah study program we will explore together the abundant sources for personal wisdom that stream through it. We will focus on how it guides us in opening our awareness and teaches us how to respond mindfully and fully to the challenges, blessings and surprises life brings. 

As we journey with the Torah week by week you will receive a mindfulness teaching based on the Torah portion, questions for reflection and suggestions for practice. We honor Torah as "a Tree of Life" that nurtures our souls and expands our capacity for compassion, graciousness and right action.

Questions we will be exploring will include:

• What does the Torah portion reveal about the blessings, truths and challenges of lives?
• What instruction does the Torah give for how to live well in relationship with ourselves and each other?
• How does the Torah anchor us in Jewish time?
• Where can we find ourselves in the stories of our people?
• What instruction can be gleaned from the Torah for how to live with awareness, honesty and compassion?

Each week we will travel within the Torah portion calling forth insights and guidance that can be integrated into our daily lives.

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Rabbi Yael Levy, a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, has served congregation Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia for 18 years. 

She is the founder of A Way In: Jewish Mindfulness Center whose mission is to integrate Jewish tradition, ritual and observance with mindfulness practice, and has competed the Institute for Jewish Spirituality's Jewish Mindfulness Teachers Training program. 

Yael serves as a spiritual director to rabbinical students as well as in private practice. She is the author of, "Journey Through the Wilderness, A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Practice of Counting the Omer."