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Pardes Levavot, “Orchard of Hearts,” was formed in the spirit of creating conscious holy community. Our name expresses the spiritual blossoming of each individual heart within an inspiring and nurturing orchard.
For information on our congregation please call (303) 563-2110 and leave a message or send email to info@pardeslevavot.org. To join our congregation, please print a copy of our membership form, fill it out, and send it to our Synagogue.
Pardes Levavot gratefully acknowledges Allied
Jewish Federation of Colorado for their support of
our Circle of Family Education program. Thank you!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Debra Kolodny, Executive Director, ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal DATE: April 30, 2010 Phone: 301-565-0719 Email: DebraRuth@mac.com Web site: www.aleph.org Dear All: Below is the April 2010 ALEPH News Service. We hope you run the following articles and look forward to hearing from you if you do. This release contains: 1. Ruach Ha'Aretz Summer Retreats 2010: Santa Cruz and Baltimore—Register Now to ensure you get your favorite class 2. ALEPH Hashpa’ah Program Registration is Open 3. Am Kolel Sanctuary & Renewal Center Welcomes Rabbi Marcia Prager & Hazzan Jack Kessler in June and David Friedman in August Shabbat Shalom! Deb Ruach Ha'Aretz Summer Retreats: Santa Cruz and Baltimore Register today to make sure your favorite class is still open and available! For the first time Ruach Ha’Aretz will be hosting bicoastal retreats in 2010, making our environmental footprint smaller and our holy study and celebration easier to access. Join us as we explore our theme: "Greening the Godfield" July 5–11: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center, Reisterstown, Maryland August 2–8: Bosch Baha’i Retreat and Conference Center, Santa Cruz, California Both feature amazing teachers and the fabulous Ruach Kids program. Go to http://www.ruachhaaretz.com/signature_retreat.html for full conference details and registration. JULY IN MARYLAND Greening our Festival and Life-cycle Celebrations –Rabbi Arthur Waskow Earth, Text and Soul: A Contemplative Approach to Torah–Rabbi Leila Gal Berner The Art of Praise–Rabbi Shefa Gold Bahti l’Gani: I Came to the Garden...To Enter Into the Great Web of Life (the Kabbalah of Avatar?)–Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross Sippur Nafshi: The Story of My Soul –Judith Dack Hands on Kabbalah: The Four Worlds of Healing Touch and Relationship Rabbi Shaya Isenberg and Bahira Sugarman Decay and Renewal: Jewish Environmental Ethics in a Time of Change Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener With All Your Breath-With all you have in you–Hazzan Jack Kessler ALEPH Lifecycle Ceremonies Training (Full day)– Rabbi Marcia Prager and RP Shulamit Fagan with guest teachers AUGUST IN CALIFORNIA Greening the Inner God-field: The Care and Feeding of Your GodSelf –Rabbi Wayne Dosick Earth, Text and Soul: A Contemplative Approach to Torah–Rabbi Leila Gal Berner (See description above) The Art of Praise–Rabbi Shefa Gold (See description above) The Kabbalah of Food, Love, Abundance, Healing and Dreams–Rabbi Leah Novick Embodying Sh’ma– Rabbi Diane Elliot From Elohim to Teva: The Jewish Creator's Evolution to Being One-with-Creation–Rabbi David J. Cooper Stories From Before Time: Paradise Lost and Paradise Found–Ellen Kaufman Dosick The Four Core Truths of the Ba’al Shem Tov:Kabbalah In a Terrestrial Key–Rabbi Burt Jacobson At Play in the Field of Soul, Sound, and Song: A four-day adventure with the Voice–Judith-Kate Friedman The Green Jew–Rabbi Ori Har and Oz DiGennaro HASHPA’AH Registration Open Registration for the third cohort of HASHPA’AH, ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal’s Certification and Ordination Program for mashpi’im/ spiritual directors, has just a few spaces remaining. The program is open to ordained clergy from seminaries recognized by OHALAH, and to students of those seminaries. It will begin next January 2011. Those planning to take part are asked to start work with a faculty mashpia at least six months prior to beginning. ALEPH is in the final stages of planning a DMin in Spiritual Direction in conjunction with New York Theological Seminary, a fully accredited long distance learning program open to graduates of the HASHPA’AH Program. For full details about HASHPA’AH see our website http://www.aleph.org/hashpaah_program.htm. For further information, email oneneshama@puaa.net, or call Rabbi Nadya Gross at 303 434-5583. Here’s what graduates and current students in the program are saying: Studying in the Hashpa'ah program has opened spiritual doors for me in my own life and has filled a "God-gap" that I found missing in my own rabbinical training. In turn, it has helped me connect with my congregation on a deeper and more meaningful level. Rabbi Ted Riter, CA Until I began to train as a mashpi’ah through ALEPH, I didn't realize how much I was missing personally and professionally. I suspected that there must be practices to bring me and others closer to God. Since I have begun to introduce these practices into my life and my community, there has been a palpable deepening of connection and spiritual experience. It's the best learning I've done since I was ordained. Rabbi Malka Drucker, New Mexico Proper qualifications are needed to effectively facilitate others choosing to truly explore their spiritual path. To be able to master both the practical processes and deep soul knowledge needed to do this exceptionally well is the learning the HASHPA'AH Program provides brilliantly. To also experience such a positive transformational change within myself was the unexpected extra, for which I will be eternally grateful. Jeremy Parnes, Canada; ALEPH Rabbinical Student The sacred work of Hashpa’ah has been the most rewarding part of my rabbinate… I want to thank my incredible teachers and chevre who have been my companions on this holy journey. Rabbi Terry (Raphaela) Greenstein, Mashpi’ah Ruchanit, Massachusetts ALEPH Affiliate Am Kolel Sanctuary and Renewal Center hosts two retreats this summer Rabbi Marcia Prager and Hazzan Jack Kessler June 11-13, 2010 “THE NEW MONTH OF TAMMUZ: SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION & RENEWAL” Israeli Teacher and Artist, David Freidman August 20-22, 2010 “Lurianic Kabbalah from Tzfat- a spiritual seeker’s path to enlightenment” These events are open to the public. For more information contact gilah@am-kolel.org and visit www.am-kolel.org and www.sanctuaryretreatcenter.org |