Current Classes
Holy Sparks: Hasidic Insights for a Fractured World
Saturdays June 6th, 13th and 20th · 10:30am-11:45am
This is an online class. You will receive a link after you register.
Hasidic teachings emerged in a very different world, but many of their central concerns feel strikingly contemporary: anxiety, distraction, joy, alienation, longing, and the search for presence. This class will explore Hasidic texts as spiritual and psychological resources for modern life - as tools for seeing through the turbulence of the moment while remaining engaged in the real world. The goal is to encounter Hasidism as a living body of Jewish wisdom that can still challenge, unsettle, and nourish us. We will read from a selection of various teachers in the tradition.
No knowledge of Hebrew is required to love this class!
This series is "Pay what you wish" - really! - but Rabbi Josh asks that you consider offering a total of $ 50-75.
Kabbalah & Consciousness
Tuesdays June 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th · 7pm - 8:15pm
This is an online class. You will receive a link after you register.
Kabbalah offers a rich and sometimes startling language for thinking about consciousness, selfhood and reality. Rather than treating the mind as sealed off from the cosmos, kabbalistic texts imagine human awareness as participating in larger patterns of creation, fragmentation, concealment, and repair. These traditional insights resonate in surprising ways with come emerging philosophical and scientific ideas about consciousness from people such as Bernardo Kastrup and Donald Hoffman. We will consider how these mystical teachings might illuminate contemporary questions about mind, meaning, and experience.
No knowledge of Hebrew (or consciousness studies) is required to love this class!
This series is "Pay what you wish" - really! - but Rabbi Josh asks that you consider offering $75-100 total.