Monday Night Rahmana Beit Midrash:
A Weekly Mini-Retreat
Join for When Prayer Flows and The Practice of Melacha
Monday evenings, 6:30-9:30pm, graciously home-hosted
When Prayer Flows
6:30-7:30, followed by maariv, evening prayers. Jan 26-Feb 23 (5 weeks)
The rabbis spoke of prayer that "flows in your mouth" easily and naturally, that feels deeply familiar and accessible. This course is designed in response to Rahmana community members asking for support entering the language, structure, and meaning of Jewish communal prayer. Together, we'll learn the opening section of the Amidah — the central Jewish prayer — by heart, so it becomes a memorized, spiritual tool to flow forth when you reach for it.
Along the way, we'll explore the profound poetry woven into these ancient words, orienting us to wonder and holiness, connections to our ancestors, and invitations to something larger than ourselves. By the end, you'll feel closer to prayer in its personal and communal expressions, with access to participate in it more fully.
We will spend time in skill-matched partner learning (please miss no more than one session so you can be present for your partner). Each class will end with evening prayers (maariv) and brief reflection.
Yemima Learning
The Practice of Melacha: Writing Toward Clarity
8-9:30, Jan 26-March 23
(No class on March 2, Purim, and class March 9 may be rescheduled to March 4th)
In this course, we will focus on the spiritual practice of writing a melacha, following the process of mystic and healer, Yemima Avital z’’l. Through this writing practice, we develop a lifelong tool for discernment and clearing, creating more inner spaciousness and relational ease and depth.
In weekly meetings over two months, we will learn Yemima’s framing for awareness in relationships and write to reflect on particular salient experiences, whether experiences that were vibrant or experiences that left a residue. We write to demarcate what in the experience was essential and what was excess, and we let our systems "clean out the excess" and amplify our capacity to come closer to what is fresh and real in ourselves, in others, and in the current moment. This course is oriented to those who have participated in Yemima learning with Rahmana in the past. New Yemima learners will be asked to read short introductory materials before the course begins.
A Weekly Mini-Retreat
Join for When Prayer Flows and The Practice of Melacha
Monday evenings, 6:30-9:30pm, graciously home-hosted
When Prayer Flows
6:30-7:30, followed by maariv, evening prayers. Jan 26-Feb 23 (5 weeks)
The rabbis spoke of prayer that "flows in your mouth" easily and naturally, that feels deeply familiar and accessible. This course is designed in response to Rahmana community members asking for support entering the language, structure, and meaning of Jewish communal prayer. Together, we'll learn the opening section of the Amidah — the central Jewish prayer — by heart, so it becomes a memorized, spiritual tool to flow forth when you reach for it.
Along the way, we'll explore the profound poetry woven into these ancient words, orienting us to wonder and holiness, connections to our ancestors, and invitations to something larger than ourselves. By the end, you'll feel closer to prayer in its personal and communal expressions, with access to participate in it more fully.
We will spend time in skill-matched partner learning (please miss no more than one session so you can be present for your partner). Each class will end with evening prayers (maariv) and brief reflection.
Yemima Learning
The Practice of Melacha: Writing Toward Clarity
8-9:30, Jan 26-March 23
(No class on March 2, Purim, and class March 9 may be rescheduled to March 4th)
In this course, we will focus on the spiritual practice of writing a melacha, following the process of mystic and healer, Yemima Avital z’’l. Through this writing practice, we develop a lifelong tool for discernment and clearing, creating more inner spaciousness and relational ease and depth.
In weekly meetings over two months, we will learn Yemima’s framing for awareness in relationships and write to reflect on particular salient experiences, whether experiences that were vibrant or experiences that left a residue. We write to demarcate what in the experience was essential and what was excess, and we let our systems "clean out the excess" and amplify our capacity to come closer to what is fresh and real in ourselves, in others, and in the current moment. This course is oriented to those who have participated in Yemima learning with Rahmana in the past. New Yemima learners will be asked to read short introductory materials before the course begins.
The material from Yemima that we plan to explore includes:
Midat Rochak (מידת רוחק): Cultivating distance that allows for greater intimacy
Separation of Fields: Inhabiting our own place, support others in theirs, and attend to the friction between your field and another's
Sustainable Warmth: Bringing awareness to your whole being's aliveness, enabling warmth toward others that comes from fullness, not depletion
Purim and Passover learning (these session are open to the full Rahmana community on the Monday night before the holiday):
February 23: Purim preparation
March 23: Passover preparation
Participants will join an additional weekly online practice time: Thursday morning 9-9:25am or Sunday night 9-9:25pm. This is lightly facilitated time to support your melacha writing practice.
Midat Rochak (מידת רוחק): Cultivating distance that allows for greater intimacy
Separation of Fields: Inhabiting our own place, support others in theirs, and attend to the friction between your field and another's
Sustainable Warmth: Bringing awareness to your whole being's aliveness, enabling warmth toward others that comes from fullness, not depletion
Purim and Passover learning (these session are open to the full Rahmana community on the Monday night before the holiday):
February 23: Purim preparation
March 23: Passover preparation
Participants will join an additional weekly online practice time: Thursday morning 9-9:25am or Sunday night 9-9:25pm. This is lightly facilitated time to support your melacha writing practice.
If you'd like to sponsor soup for one evening or for the series, please be in touch.
To make these weekly mini-retreats sustainable,
we ask that participants contribute $180-500.
If cost is a barrier, please be in touch with Lauren, our Operations Manager, at [email protected]
Located in the Hilltop neighborhood, address shared following registration
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