נאריש זשלאָב מענטשOct 22

"The new-ish, #Jewish Renewal community welcomed 150 attendees for its #YomKippur and #RoshHashanah services in its debut season.

It wasn’t just a new beginning for Ha’Sadeh, but also for Benmergui himself, who was recently named as the new executive director for the Canadian branch of #JewishRenewal, #ALEPHCanada. The movement is more popular outside #Canada than inside—there are 50 congregations worldwide, including #Vancouver’s Or Shalom Synagogue—but there are smaller #Renewal communities in Canada without brick-and-mortar buildings that aren’t quite yet “congregations”, the latest of which is Ha’Sadeh."

https://thecjn.ca/news/canada/drumming-chanting-climate-change-canadas-jewish-renewal-movement-is-growing/

Drumming, chanting, climate change: Canada's Jewish Renewal movement is growing

TV and radio personality Ralph Benmergui enters a new chapter as the executive director of ALEPH Canada.

The Canadian Jewish News
Show threadBogi TakácsFeb 26, 2023

Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams by Jill Hammer.

A book about dreams that gets across the *feeling* of dreams - less technical than some of her other work, but still an interesting read.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5373909918

#reviews #Mazeldon #nonfiction #Jewish #BogiReads #Kabbalah #dreams #mysticism #JewishRenewal #Bookstodon

Bogi Takács's review of Undertorah

I feel like I've read endless amounts of books about dreams, but most of them don't actually get across what dreams *feel* like - this one does. I always enjoy Jill Hammer's writing and this one was no exception. The book had an emphasis on healing, and I was wondering if that could've been expressed in the title (I might have read it even sooner). It took me a few chapters to see that was where the book was going. I felt the Jewish connections were a bit more understated in this book than in some of her other work; I think I expected more 'technical' Kabbalah after having read her book o...

Show threadBen Yehuda Press: Jewish booksFeb 20, 2023

3. One of our perennial bestsellers is Rabbi Jill Hammer's translation and commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah, Return to the Place!

Explores both traditional & contemporary spiritual practices *and* modern scholarship on the Sefer Yetzirah -

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/return-to-the-place/

#Kabbalah #Meditation #Magic #Magick #SeferYetzirah #Nonfiction #JewishBooks #JewishAuthors #Bookstodon #JewishRenewal

Return to the Place - Ben Yehuda Press

Rabbi Jill Hammer has taken an ancient Jewish mystical text and transformed it into a contemporary guide for meditative practice. In Return to the Place, Rabbi Hammer guides the reader through the story of creation as the ancient text of the Sefer Yetzirah draws readers in and invites them to become participants in the book’s […]

Ben Yehuda Press
Ben Yehuda Press: Jewish booksJan 1, 2023

New year, new prayer book?!

We are starting the year by poking at the pdfs of our upcoming Renew Our Hearts: A Siddur for Shabbat Day, coming in collaboration with Bayit: Building Jewish!

Preorders:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/renew-our-hearts/

#Jewish #Mazeldon #Siddur #JewishRenewal #Renewal #PublishingLife #Prayer #Davening

Renew Our Hearts - Ben Yehuda Press

  From the creator of the Velveteen Rabbi’s Haggadah, a new siddur for the day of Shabbat. Published jointly by Bayit and Ben Yehuda Press, Renew Our Hearts balances tradition with innovation, featuring liturgy for morning (shacharit and a renewing approach to musaf, the “additional” service of Shabbat and festivals), afternoon (mincha), and evening (ma’ariv and havdalah), […]

Ben Yehuda Press
Show threadJewish conversationsDec 21, 2022

@mstreiffer@mas.to @emilyk @mazeldon

What upsets some Jews on Mastodon is that they don't want us non-Orthodox Jews to learn Chassidus or even be friends with Orthodox Jews. We however feel that friendship and reading is not threatening. Open your hearts to the many non-Orthodox Jews discovering neo-Hasidut. This is mainstream across #ReformJudaism, #JewishRenewal, and #ConservativeJudaism.

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/neo-hasidism/

Neo-Hasidism

Merrimack Valley Havurah