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REGISTER NOW: High Holidays 2024 – Jewish New Year Interfaith Zen Retreat in Burlingame, CA – September 14, 2024

REGISTER NOW: High Holidays 2024 - Jewish New Year Interfaith Zen Retreat in Burlingame, CA - September 14, 2024

I would like to take the opportunity to invite you to the daylong interfaith Zen retreat for the Jewish New Year coming up this September 14 in Burlingame, CA. You may register now!

As the summer winds down and we experience the cooler temperatures in the morning, we are reminded that the season is turning. Fall will soon be upon us. It is time for a New Year and new experiences.

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REGISTER NOW: High Holidays 2023 – Jewish New Year Interfaith Zen Retreat in the Bay Area

Jewish New Year Interfaith Zen Retreat

Come celebrate Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish New Year on this contemplative interfaith Zen retreat in the Bay Area! You may register now!

Rosh Hashanah is a holiday of waking up. We awaken from the deep slumber of selfishness, conceit, and putting ourselves above others and awaken to something different. On Rosh Hashanah, the Divine calls out to wake us up from the darkness of ignorance and to open our eyes and hearts to the truth and awe that is always surrounding us and that which also makes up the very fabric of our ordinary life.

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How Do We Celebrate Freedom?

How Do We Celebrate Freedom

Freedom and liberty is so very precious and something for which I am eternally grateful and do not take for granted.

Yes, freedom can be “internal”. We all need to feel and experience this genuine liberation; yet, “external” freedom is no more unnecessary. It is this freedom — unfortunately, a rarity in the world in this day and age — that we celebrate and consecrate this Independence Day Holiday.

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What is “Jewish” Meditation? Is Meditation Even “Jewish”

What is Jewish Meditation - Is It Even Jewish

Sometimes questions are more simple than we know. Often times, questions are also more complicated than we hope.

One such question is “What makes meditation Jewish?” This question might just be simple AND complicated to answer?! I write about this elsewhere (here and here), though allow me to answer this question here as simply as possible, albeit with a complicated caveat.

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REGISTER NOW: High Holidays 2023 – Yom Kippur Zen Mindfulness Jewish Meditation Retreat

High Holidays 2023 - Yom Kippur Zen Mindfulness Jewish Meditation Retreat

The Jewish High Holidays are a period of reflection and opportunity to renew our intentions for the coming year in a deeply personal and meaningful way.

Please join Rabbi Adam Fogel and Mindful Judaism on a Zen Mindfulness Jewish Meditation retreat this Yom Kippur! The Yom Kippur retreat will include periods of silent sitting and walking meditation, an abbreviated chant style service, time for speaking from the heart in hitbodedut, and sacred sharing in council to close the retreat.

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Have You Only But One Blessing?!: Stealing Birthrights and Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Have You Only But One Blessing?!: Stealing Birthrights and Giving Voice to the Voiceless

The characters in the Bible are far from perfect. Yet this makes sense, as we too are just as far from perfect. What occurs in this week’s parasha is simply wrong. While it might be applauded as heroic in the tradition, if what happened in the Bible happened in your family, I imagine you would be disturbed.

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