Amukah aims to create a supportive, intimate community in which participants deepen the Jewish spiritual practice they developed in their IJS Kivvun experience, growing in wisdom through a shared commitment to engaging in meditation, prayer, text study, and middot practice. In the interim period between retreats, participants will engage in daily practice, weekly chevruta study, and monthly reflection sessions with IJS faculty. Each cohort of Amukah will be based on the teaching of a scholar of Jewish spiritual thought and practice.
Each cohort of Amukah will be open to all Kivvun alumni, and will be based on the teaching of a scholar of Jewish spiritual thought and practice.
Program Details
The Amukah program consists of two retreats and six months of interim study.
Retreat Dates
Opening retreat, featuring guest scholar Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed
Thursday, January 23 through Sunday, January 26, 2020
Brandeis-Bardin campus, American Jewish University, Simi Valley CA
IJS staff: Rabbi Sam Feinsmith and Rabbi Marc Margolius
Closing retreat
Wednesday, June 17 through Sunday, June 21, 2020
Trinity Retreat Center, West Cornwall CT
IJS staff: Rabbi Sam Feinsmith and Rabbi Marc Margolius
All retreat facilities are kosher, under the supervision
of IJS staff or local mashgichim.
Tuition
two retreats and six-month interim learning period:Room and Board
two retreatsFACULTY
The program is taught by IJS faculty members: Rabbis Sam Feinsmith and Marc Margolius. They will be joined at the opening retreat in January by Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed, research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and professor of Jewish mysticism and Zohar at Hebrew University. She is author of “And a River Flows from Eden:” On the Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar, (Stanford University Press, 2009), and active in Sulha, a project for reconciliation between Israeli Jews and Palestinians.
Rabbi Sam Feinsmith
Rabbi Marc Margolius
Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed
What’s Next?
For more information and to register,
contact Rabbi Marc Margolius,
Program Director, at
(610) 724-1901 or