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Directing the Heart Through Jewish Mindfulness
ישרי לב
Directing the Heart Through Jewish Mindfulness
ישרי לב
The season of Pesach is upon us, a time rich in rituals and teachings that can offer support, inspiration and guidance in these times.
Here are offerings to bring to your seder table.
The Telling: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God
This is the Pesach story told through the experience of the women who defied the Pharaoh and opened pathways to freedom.
Practices and Intentions for the 4 Cups, to help keep our hearts open, soft and strong.
Intentions and prayers for Matzah, Maror and Charoset
Prayers for Urchatz, sacred handwashing that honors the prophetess Myriam
A Pesach Guide to Honor our Broken Hearts (2024)
This seder guide is designed to help us soften our hearts and bring us into connection through the of sharing of sorrows and the lifting up of compassion.
(Mentioned in Rabbi Jonathan Kligler’s Substack newsletter)
May Pesach, the Festival of Liberation, bring us into a wide expanse of possibility. May this season open the way to justice and peace.
A Way In offers Omer teachings and intentions every evening from April 2. Sign up for the A Way In Mailing List to receive these teachings to your inbox.
Go to blessings and articles on how and why to count the Omer
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In recent years, “Counting the Omer” has been re-imagined as an invitation to Mindfulness practice: paying attention not only to each day as it passes but also to the individual spiritual qualities that were assigned to it by the 16th century Jewish mystics.