Chochmat HaLev

🍩 THURSDAY: Join our Community Weaver, Brittany Berman, for a casual and welcoming community circle. Donuts provided!

✨ SATURDAY: Gather with us for two beloved, longtime lay-led offerings, Torah Study and our Contemplative Shabbat Morning Service. Come explore Jewish wisdom, deepen your practice, and connect in community.

Check our full calendar here: https://chochmat.org/calendar/

✨ We're hiring!✨

💥Hebrew School Educators: We're seeking two creative, dynamic, and experienced educators to join our youth learning program. After launching two years ago with a class for grades 3–5, we're excited to expand this year with a new K–2 class.
Apply here: https://chochmat.org/hebrew-school-educators/

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🌱Part-Time Administrative Assistant: Help support the daily operations of our vibrant community. This role offers a flexible schedule with occasional additional hours for Friday evening Shabbat services, occasional Saturday morning services, and other evening or weekend programs as needed.
Apply here: https://chochmat.org/administrative-assistant/

Join Rabbi Zvika and Lior for our last Shabbat morning Shacharit prayer service before the High Holy days, full of soulful singing, ecstatic dancing, and guided meditation. Our interactive Torah experience mines the texts of our ancestral wisdom for modern meaning.

Stay after the service for kiddush and shmoozing - we'd love to see you there!

🎟Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/shabbat-morning-service/tickets?_gl=1*12n0d3b*_gcl_au*NTc2OTMxNzQ3LjE3NTkyNTc3NjAuMTA0NjQyODQwOS4xNzYwMzczNTc3LjE3NjAzNzM1NzY.*_ga*MTU2ODc1NzIxLjE3NTE0MTAwMjI.*_ga_LHKW5FR9N6*czE3NjA1NTYxODMkbzE4MiRnMSR0MTc2MDU1NjM1MSRqMjAkbDAkaDA.

Join us for a soulful evening led by
Lior Tsarfaty, Rachel Valfer and Eliyahu Sills of the Qadim Ensemble. We'll welcome Shabbat through mystical melodies, guided meditation, ecstatic dancing, ancient poetry, and the beautiful sounds of the oud and ney flute.

🥗 Stay afterward for a vegetarian potluck oneg.

🔥 HeartSpace | 8:00pm
Gather around the campfire for s'mores, conversation, and a relaxed summer evening in community.

We are thrilled to announce that will be starting this June as Chochmat's first-ever Rabbi/Director of Learning and Transformation, working closely with Rabbi

Our community is so excited to be blessed and enriched by her intellectual depth and wide-ranging knowledge of Jewish wisdom and practice, as well as her warmth, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit. We're energized by her vision for meaningful Jewish learning and rites-of-passage experiences (including conversion and Adult B’Mitzva), as well as strengthening our youth and family offerings.

Some highlights from the community feedback:
- “Rishe seems to personify chochmat halev -- Wisdom of the Heart."
- “She inspired me. I felt seen and heard. She ignited a fire within me and I want more…. She is relatable and profound, and I want to sit cross legged at her feet and contemplate the state of my soul all night.”
- “It was wonderful to see her infectious joy light up multiple roomfuls of people. I'm excited to see the energy of the programs she'll run at Chochmat!”
- “She was so grounded, so knowledgeable, so enthusiastic in a very authentic way. She had good humor and glee and passion.”

Rabbi Rishe Groner is a storyteller, ritual leader, and spiritual archeologist, focused on creating unique immersive experiences of ecstatic, mystical Jewish embodiment. Rishe fuses her background in Chabad Chasidism with her experience in the world of nightlife and festivals to support people through personal growth with ancient tools of spiritual technology. Rishe dances in and out of worlds of prayerful movement practice; psychedelic chaplaincy; spirituality retreats; and organized religious institutions. She has brought her brand of post-Chassidic embodiment to festivals, retreats, conferences, and gatherings across Israel and the United States, ranging from Burning Man to Limmud NY. Her writing has been featured in Lilith, Tablet, Hey Alma, and on her website, TheGene-Sis.com. Rabbi Rishe was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she also received a Masters in Jewish Thought and Mysticism, and is currently serving as rabbi of Congregation Beth Ohr in Bellmore, Long Island, NY.

Class started this week, but it's not too late to join!

Between Passover and Shavuot, we enter Module 3 of the Go Deeper Cohort Journey, diving into two essential Jewish themes: Divinity and Prayer ✨

Led by Rabbi Dorothy Richman, this module brings embodied practice to life through song, meditation, and experiential Prayer Labs. Joined by Rabbi Zvika Krieger and Dr. Daniel Matt, we’ll also explore Jewish understandings of the Divine, including the God we don’t believe in.

🌀Jump in now, you won't be behind!
🎟 Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/go-deeper-cohort-journey-spring-divinity-and-prayer?_gl=1*j8ciqh*_gcl_au*MTg0MTcxNTQ0OC4xNzY1OTk4NjM4LjE2MDY3MTgxMDQuMTc3MTYzODU4MS4xNzcxNjQwMDkw*_ga*MTAwOTI2MTkzMS4xNzQyMjMzODg2*_ga_LHKW5FR9N6*czE3NzI4MzI1NTYkbzQwMiRnMSR0MTc3MjgzMzUyMCRqNjAkbDAkaDA.

🌝 Purim arrives Monday with the Full Moon!

Don’t miss our family-focused festival of FUN, ✨ Open to kids of all ages ✨

Come in costume.
Join the raffle.
Come ready to turn it all inside out.

Tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/family-purim-carnival-and-megillah-show_gl=1*1sso5ly*_gcl_au*MTg0MTcxNTQ0OC4xNzY1OTk4NjM4LjE2OTM0MzI2NTcuMTc2ODQxOTk3OS4xNzY4NDE5OTc5*_ga*MTAwOTI2MTkzMS4xNzQyMjMzODg2*_ga_LHKW5FR9N6*czE3NzAxNjM0NDkkbzM0OCRnMSR0MTc3MDE2NDg1NyRqMjAkbDAkaDA.

Join us for a day of Jewish and Buddhist wisdom.

Meditation.
Song and chant.
Sacred study.
Heart-opening practice.

Together, we’ll explore how to access our own heart wisdom, especially in a world that so often pulls us toward disconnection and shutdown.

All backgrounds warmly welcome, including those new to meditation or spiritual life.

TIckets here: https://events.humanitix.com/shovavim-a-day-of-spiritual-return?_gl=1*1v1cxmq*_gcl_au*MTg0MTcxNTQ0OC4xNzY1OTk4NjM4LjE2OTM0MzI2NTcuMTc2ODQxOTk3OS4xNzY4NDE5OTc5*_ga*MTAwOTI2MTkzMS4xNzQyMjMzODg2*_ga_LHKW5FR9N6*czE3Njg5NTc2NzIkbzMyNCRnMCR0MTc2ODk1NzY3MiRqNjAkbDAkaDA.