Awakening to the Divine Presence

A Seven-Day Jewish Meditation Retreat

March 4-11, 2007 at the
Shambhala Mountain Center, Colorado
 

Sponsored by:

• The Awakened Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism
• Gishmey Brachah

Co-sponsors

Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality, Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Religion Department of Naropa University and Yesod Foundation

Take the opportunity for a profound spiritual experience with this seven-day meditation retreat. Using the vehicle of silence and a variety of Jewish meditation approaches this retreat will offer you the possibility of looking deeply into your own life and coming to a place of greater wisdom, joy and compassion. The deep work allows each of us to see more clearly how our lives become overwhelmed causing us to shut down and hurting ourselves and those around us in the process. The clarity of this practice, allows us to glimpse instead, the Divine presence that pervades all of life.

The retreat includes periods of daily prayer and chant. Regular instructions in meditation will help guide both beginning and advanced practitioners as you enter the sacred space created by the retreat process. The retreat, which is conducted in social silence, includes times for questions and answers as well as small group and private interviews with the instructors. The week is culminated in a deep celebration of Shabbat followed by the chance to hear of each other’s learning as the retreat comes to a close. Reb Zalman will be present and teach during the first day of the retreat.

Registration Information

This retreat is co-sponsored by Elat Chayyim and will take place at the Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.

Please visit their website to register.

Faculty

Rabbi Joanna Katz, co-founder of Elat Chayyim, has been a hospital and college chaplain. She is currently the Jewish chaplain at Taconic Correctional Facility. She facilitates an ongoing women’s meditation group that is in its fifth year. She is a graduate of the Dedicated Practitioners Program of Spirit Rock and the mother of three.

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Rabbi Moshe Aharon (Miles) Krassen received ordination in 1996 from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. In 1990, he completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Krassen has taught at Smith College, Temple University and at Oberlin College, where he served as director of the Jewish Studies Program. He is currently on the faculty of Naropa University. He is the author of Uniter of Heaven and Earth, a study of mystical experience and non-duality in early Hasidism and his annotated translation of a major kabbalistic text, Isaiah Horowitz: Generations of Adam, is a volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality series.

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Rabbi Jeff Roth is co-founder of Elat Chayyim where he served as Executive Director and Spiritual Director for 13 years. He is an experienced meditation teacher and the facilitator of over 60 Jewish meditation retreats.

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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was ordained at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, and received his PhD at the Hebrew Union College. He ordains rabbis through the ALEPH Rabbinate Program, is the founder of the Spiritual Eldering Institute and was the "Holder of the Chair of World Wisdom" at Naropa Institute.

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