Welcome to the Food-for-the-Soul Havurah Page
Jewish Traditions from Your Home to Around the World.
Themes and Resources
Hearing As A Spiritual Act
Here are a list of articles focused on the spiritual experience of deep listening to ourselves, each other and all that is happening in the world.
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Spiritual "Hearing" | My Jewish Learning
Listen to Shema’s Inner Message - Chabad.org
Are You Listening? - Vaetchanan - Chabad.org
Article from My Jewish Learning.
Meeting focus: Discussion, reflection, creative activity.
JSP cultivates creativity as a Jewish practices for spiritual connection and social transformation.
101 Middle Eastern Classics--Made Irresistibly Vegan
Or HaLev is a Jewish Path to a more vibrant, whole and awakened life through mindfulness and innovative Jewish practice.
If you could trade 5 or 10 minutes for a really good day, would you? That's Mussar! This ancient path is rooted in the Bible, works for everyone, and will make your day better and more beautiful. --from the Mussar Center website
Upcoming Events
September 24, Tuesday, 6:00-8:00, Havurah meeting hosted and lead by Yepeth Perla. The topic will be preparation for the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). This is a time of personal reflection and introspection.
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"Don't look off in the
distance, and don't look outside yourself either, the Torah is telling
us, look at your own heart. Don't look out the window; look at the window itself." from Alan Lew, This is Real and You are Completely Unprepareed, 2003, p. 82
Meeting Ideas
Coloring. We can try pages from The Kabbalah Coloring Book: A Book of Creation including teachings of the Kabalah by David Friedman. ​​
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