Sitting with the Sefirot:
Sitting with the Sefirot: A Kabbalistic Journey for Deepening Your Jewish Mindfulness Meditation PracticeFebruary 9 – May 31, 2026
17 Sessions, Live on Zoom
This course will help you take your daily meditation practice to the next level through the Kabbalah’s mystical sefirot—lenses to help us channel, focus, and reveal the sublime light of our own Divine nature. The Kabbalah’s mystical sefirot provide a systematic structure and spiritual framework for deepening our meditation practice skills and cultivating virtue, all while connecting to Jewish wisdom.
We will explore each of the seven lower sefirot as a foundation to:
• Expand your capacity to feel and extend love
• Strengthen your discipline in practice
• Develop greater attentional balance
• Stabilize your meditative concentration
• Cultivate devekut, connection with the Divine
• Shift into nondual awareness
• Take your practice into your daily life
Meet Your Instructor:
Rabbi Sam Feinsmith
As Senior Core Faculty at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality Sam directs the IJS Clergy Leadership Program and serves on the faculty of Gates of Awareness, a training program for aspiring teachers of Jewish mindfulness meditation. He is one of two lead teachers for our online course on the fundamentals of Jewish mindfulness meditation, The Gift of Awareness, and has written the IJS year-long Hasidic text study offering for a number of years running. After close to fifteen years teaching contemplative practices grounded in mindfulness to teens and educators, Sam originally came on board at IJS to develop and direct the Educating for a Jewish Spiritual Life Program, which brought these practices to hundreds of Jewish day- and religious-school educators and their students.