Yemima Learning
An Intermediate Course
The Practice of Melacha: Writing Toward Clarity
Mondays, January 26-March 23
8:00-9:30pm
Eight weeks. No class on Purim, March 2.
Participants also attend a 25-min zoom session on Thurs morning or Sun night each week to support their practice.
In this course, we will bring teachings from Yemima on relationship and internal landscape to bear on specific experiences in our lives. In weekly meetings over two months, we will develop a spiritual practice tool: writing a melacha in response to particular situations in our lives, to practice the process of mystic and healer, Yemima Avital z’’l. Through this writing practice, we develop a lifelong tool for discernment and creating more inner spaciousness and relational ease and depth.
Our learning will be more practical, applied, and skill-oriented than previous Rahmana Yemima courses. We will apply Yemima's teachings to how we process recent experiences, through writing and with demonstrations in the group. Because the nature of this work will be very context-specific, sharing our writing will have a different rhythm in this course. As always, participants will choose what they share, there is no expectation of reading full melachot aloud.
This course is oriented to those who have participated in Yemima learning with Rahmana in the past. Those new to Yemima learning will be asked to read introductory materials before the course begins.
An Intermediate Course
The Practice of Melacha: Writing Toward Clarity
Mondays, January 26-March 23
8:00-9:30pm
Eight weeks. No class on Purim, March 2.
Participants also attend a 25-min zoom session on Thurs morning or Sun night each week to support their practice.
In this course, we will bring teachings from Yemima on relationship and internal landscape to bear on specific experiences in our lives. In weekly meetings over two months, we will develop a spiritual practice tool: writing a melacha in response to particular situations in our lives, to practice the process of mystic and healer, Yemima Avital z’’l. Through this writing practice, we develop a lifelong tool for discernment and creating more inner spaciousness and relational ease and depth.
Our learning will be more practical, applied, and skill-oriented than previous Rahmana Yemima courses. We will apply Yemima's teachings to how we process recent experiences, through writing and with demonstrations in the group. Because the nature of this work will be very context-specific, sharing our writing will have a different rhythm in this course. As always, participants will choose what they share, there is no expectation of reading full melachot aloud.
This course is oriented to those who have participated in Yemima learning with Rahmana in the past. Those new to Yemima learning will be asked to read 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.
Make Monday nights a weekly mini-retreat! Join for learning on prayer, 6:30-7:45, and enjoy soup during a short break before Yemima learning. Register here for the full evening, and let us know if you would like to sponsor soup one Monday evening or for the series!
This is offered on a sliding scale. To make this offering sustainable, we ask that participants contribute $180-360, with a $72 option available.
If cost is a barrier, please write to our Operations Manager at [email protected].
Lovingly home-hosted in the Hilltop neighborhood, address shared following registration.
This is offered on a sliding scale. To make this offering sustainable, we ask that participants contribute $180-360, with a $72 option available.
If cost is a barrier, please write to our Operations Manager at [email protected].
Lovingly home-hosted in the Hilltop neighborhood, address shared following registration.
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