Please join us for a learning series with Reb Mimi Feigelson, "Preparing Your Heart for the High Holidays." The series will be made up of three different sessions on September 1, September 8, and September 15 from 9:45-11:00 am. This series will meet via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87687977612

Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi (Miriam Sara) Feigelson, is the first ordained female Orthodox rabbi post-shoah. She is a senior lecturer in Talmud, Chassidut and Death Studies at the Schechter Institutes and an international teacher of Chassidut, Death Studies, Spirituality and a story teller. Reb Mimi offers spiritual guidance and mentoring, specializing in death and mourning, and other life-transition periods, both face-to-face and on zoom. Reb Mimi formed and created, as an Israeli-Modern-Chareidi-Chassidic-Rabbi the
role of the Mashpiah Ruchanit (spiritual mentor) in non-Orthodox Rabbinical Seminaries in the United States since 2001, and in Yerushalayim, since her return home in the summer of 2017. She has also taught Ḥassidut at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Makhon Hadar and Makhon Pardes in Yerushalayim.  Reb Mimi’s forthcoming book “On the Cusp of Life: From Scared to Sacred” is an
exploration and redefinition of Jewish funerals. Her forthcoming spiritual memoir “The Lonely Woman of Faith: Never Alone” is a woven fabric of her life and teachings that sustain her life.

“When My Soul Was in The Lost-and-Found” / Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi (Miriam Sara)Feigelson

So many parts of our identity, our faith, our sense of security and partnership, were put to the test this year. so many levels of trust questioned and even lost. As we head towards the months of Elul and Tishrei, months that call us Home, beckon us to reclaim ourselves, it is a time to name those lost parts of ourselves. To honestly stand up and reclaim what has been taken from us.
What are Aretha Franklin / Carole King thinking when they sing these words? Where are your tears coming from when you find yourself singing along, claiming this feeling? Other than God, who else out there would be able to identify the lost parts of your soul and protect them till you are ready to claim them? A spiritual reading of the mishnah, the headquarters of ‘retrieving lost objects,’ Bava Metzi’a chapter 2 will lead us in a journey of reclaiming ourselves. Along with our Chassidic masters: the Chernobyl Rebbe / the Me’or Ay’nayim, Rebbe Nachman, the Ishbitzer Rebbe, and the Piasetzna Rebbe. Each session will stand alone, and all three together will offer a sturdy post to lean on. More than ever we need each other.