Date: Four Wednesdays | June 24, July 1, 8, 15
Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm PT / 7:30pm-9:30pm ET
Location: Online (Register to receive zoom link)
Questions: rabbi@beyttikkun.org
Registration Fee: $360 Members // $500 Non-Members
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Event Description:
In this painful and terrifying time, many of us are asking deeper questions about what prayer is for. How can prayer move us toward courage, presence, transformation, and action instead of disconnection or despair?
At Beyt Tikkun, prayer is not rote recitation or passive ritual. We place ancient traditions inside the present moment and ask what they require of us now amidst genocide, facism, and climate collapse. We pray to reconnect: to ourselves, to each other, and to the source of life beyond ourselves. Prayer carries us from fear into spaciousness, from numbness into aliveness. It awakens us, transforms us, and calls us toward repair.
In this four-week (8 total hours) experiential course, we will deepen our relationship to davening (prayer) by studying core prayers from the weekday and Shabbat morning services and exploring how prayer can become alive, personal, transformative, and revolutionary. Drawing on the teachings of Jewish Renewal founder Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and engaging multiple prayer translations, participants will examine how language, intention, embodiment, and spiritual practice shape our experience of prayer. Students will be supported in creating their own personalized morning siddur (prayer book) and cultivating a sustainable daily prayer practice that resonates with their spiritual lives.
As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote:
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive... unless it seeks to overthrow the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, and falsehood.
No Hebrew skills needed.
Learn more about Rabbi Cat here.
This class is also included in the year-long Jewish Learning and Conversion cohort. Learn more about the cohort here.
