Yom Kippur offers the powerful and concentrated possibility of atonement, the coming back into alignment with the soulful essence of who we are, of an honest and purified relationship with the Divine, self, and others.
On this four-day retreat grounded in social silence, we will cultivate mindfulness and loving attention, and engage in chanting, prayer, and forgiveness to heighten our awareness of where we are in this precious life journey and open to the sacred potential of the day. There will be instruction and guidance in meditation practice and teachings around the practice and the themes of Yom Kippur. Traditional and egalitarian prayer services will be available, but are not a required part of the retreat
Dr. Mira Neshama Niculescu is the founder of Neshama, a Paris Based Jewish spirituality project. She learned Torah at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Studies, and earned a certificate of Jewish Experiential Jewish Education as a Yesod Fellow at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies as well as a certificate of Jewish Mindfulness Teacher at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She has been teaching parshanut, Hassidut and mindfulness since 2012, and holds a weekly Jewish meditation group at Pardes in Jerusalem
A native of England, Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein received his ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in New York, and is past Director of Jewish Life & Learning for Hillel at Stanford University. He is an accredited meditation teacher, and teaches at Pardes, Romemu Yeshiva, and the OU and is the founder of Applied Jewish Spirituality.org, a platform for online exploration of Jewish spirituality
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