The Four Worlds of Kabbalah:
A Mindfulness-Based IntroductionOctober 22 – November 26, 2025
Five Live Online Sessions: Wed, 3:00-4:15pm | Oct 22, 29, Nov 5, 12, 19
Each Followed by a Week of Reflection and Mindful Practice
Are you….
- Curious how Jewish spirituality and mindfulness might benefit you?
- Seeking a practical and accessible introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism?
- Interested in adding a Jewish dimension to your meditation practice?
- Wondering what’s Jewish about mindfulness?
The Four Worlds of Kabbalah: A Mindfulness-based Introduction is an accessible and practical introduction to mindful Jewish living grounded in the model of the “Four Worlds”—which locates the sacred in our bodies, emotions, thoughts, and spirit. Together, we’ll awaken to our essential divinity and cultivate a greater sense of wholeness.
Whether you are new to mindfulness or are a longtime spiritual seeker, this online course taught by Rebecca Schisler and Sam Feinsmith will explore a uniquely Jewish approach to meditation and mysticism that can support you to live, with greater awareness, resilience, and authenticity.
Through online materials and weekly live practice sessions, be part of a supportive community of practice growing habits of body, heart, mind, and spirit to foster personal and collective well-being and align with your deepest, most authentic self. All live sessions will be recorded and include closed captioning.
Learning about the Four Worlds of Kabbalah will support you in this process by helping you to:
- Become more attuned and awake to your inner life in its richness and subtlety
- Grow in awareness of your body, emotions, thoughts and spirit as gateways to spiritual living
- Live with greater intentionality, awareness, and presence
- Learn a foundational Kabbalistic map for the cultivating consciousness and well-being
- Experience yourself as an innately divine being held in the embrace of unconditional love
- Develop habits of heart, mind, and body that support your capacity to practice self-care, respond wisely and compassionately to life’s challenges, and thrive
- Practice essential skills for cultivating and developing a personal Jewish spiritual practice grounded in mindfulness
Note: If you have already taken Awaken: Essential Jewish Mindfulness, this course will cover the same material with some adaptations and additions.
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IJS is pleased to offer this course at three tuition levels.
We encourage you to pay at the highest level you can, which will enable more students to participate.
Abundance Level
$299
Basic Level
$199
Reduced Level
$99
Meet Your Instructors:
Rebecca Schisler
Rebecca is a meditation teacher, artist, and Jewish educator. A devoted contemplative practitioner, she has led groups and taught classes and retreats with Or HaLev, Wilderness Torah, Pardes, Stanford School of Medicine, Urban Adamah, Hamakom, and the Awakened Heart Project. She was previously the Director of Student Health & Well-being at Stanford University’s Hillel, and co-authored the Mahloket Matters Schools Curriculum with the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. A student rabbi at ALEPH, Rebecca is passionate about integrating ancestral wisdom traditions with innovative approaches to personal and collective healing and liberation. She teaches Jewish spirituality as an embodied, holistic, and accessible path, with relevant and timely wisdom for all. Rebecca currently lives in the California Bay Area, where she maintains a lively studio art practice as the artist-in-residence at the JCC East Bay, loves to host Jewish gatherings of all kinds, and tries to lose herself among her neighboring redwood trees as much as possible. Learn more at www.rebeccaschisler.com.
Rabbi Sam Feinsmith
Rabbi Sam Feinsmith has been immersed in Jewish contemplative living, learning, and teaching for over twenty years, conducting Jewish meditation workshops, programs, and retreats for children, teens, Jewish educators, clergy, and community leaders. He’s passionate about practicing and teaching meditation and making the spiritual teachings of Hasidism available to all. He received an MA in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and rabbinic ordination from YCT Rabbinical School. He also trained as a Jewish mindfulness meditation teacher with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. Sam lives on the land of the Council of the Three Fires – the Potowatami, Ojibwe, and Odawa tribes – currently known as Evanston, IL with his wife Sarah-Bess and daughter Elanit.
