A Free Online Program
August 13 – September 22
Led by Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife and Rebecca Schisler
The High Holiday season invites us into a powerful journey of returning to our most authentic selves – if we are ready and willing to do so.
Over a five-week period leading up to Rosh Hashanah, join Rebecca Schisler, Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife, and an intimate group of folks in their 20s and 30s to share in ongoing Jewish spiritual practice grounded in teachings drawn from This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, by Rabbi Alan Lew.
The first 15 registrants will receive a FREE copy of Rabbi Lew’s book!
This program includes live virtual sessions to cultivate connection and practice in community, a WhatsApp discussion group, and the option to learn and practice with a chevrutah, or study partner.
The High Holiday season invites us into a powerful journey of returning to our most authentic selves – if we are ready and willing to do so.
Over a five-week period leading up to Rosh Hashanah, join Rebecca Schisler, Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife, and an intimate group of folks in their 20s and 30s to share in ongoing Jewish spiritual practice grounded in teachings drawn from This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, by Rabbi Alan Lew.
The first 15 registrants will receive a FREE copy of Rabbi Lew’s book!
This program includes live virtual sessions to cultivate connection and practice in community, a WhatsApp discussion group, and the option to learn and practice with a chevrutah, or study partner.
Five live practice sessions to cultivate connection and practice in community will take place on the following Mondays from 8:00-9:15 PM ET:
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- August 14, 21, 28
- September 11 and 18
- (No session Labor Day, September 4)
PROGRAM FOR ALL AGES: IJS will be offering a free, five-week online program for all ages, The Shofar Project: Getting Real for the New Year. Click here to learn more.
Meet your instructors:
Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) Keshira halev Fife
IJS Faculty Fellow
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. She serves as Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh, Program Director for Beloved Garden, inaugural Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and also enjoys working with the Jewish Learning Collaborative. Additionally, she delights in serving as a shlichat tzibbur, life spiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, teacher, facilitator, liturgist and songstress. Her work in these realms is informed by her lived experience as a queer, bi-racial, Jewish person, her belief that Book, Body and Earth are equal sources of wisdom, the quandaries she has encountered as a scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School, and her deep commitment to a thriving, liberatory Jewish future. Keshira received Kohenet smicha in 2017 and earned her BS 2000 and MS 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University. After many years of traveling and living in Australia, in 2018, she and her beloved returned home to Osage and Haudenosaunee land, also called Pittsburgh, PA.
Rebecca Schisler
Core Faculty
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, Awakened Heart Project, Orot, Wilderness Torah, Pardes, and Stanford School of Medicine. 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.
