Holding Our Broken Hearts
A Gathering in Honor of the Hostages
With Rabbi Avi Killip, Rabbi Jenny Solomon, Rachel Jackson, Rebecca Leicht, Rabbanit Amalia Haas, Rabbanit Aliza Sperling, Rabbi Abby Sosland, Rabbi Rebecca Kamil, Esther Sperber, Rabbanit Dalia Davis, and others
It has been almost nine months of captivity for the remaining hostages. Our hearts our broken, day after day, month after month. We have not stopped thinking about them, praying for them.
Let’s come together to honor them, hold them - and each other - close in our hearts and prayers.
In their merit, we will explore and experience some methods of strengthening and resilience. We will also have an option to connect with others over the wide range of emotions so many of us are navigating in this moment. Join us.
Rabbi Avi Killip will share some beautiful teaching on Jewish healing and resilience. We will then offer an opportunity to experience a space of strengthening and healing inspired by and centered around one of the hostages:
Rabbi Jenny Solomon will guide us through an accessible yoga stretch and meditation session in honor of Carmel Gat
Rebecca Leicht will honor the memory of Amiram Cooper through reflections on poetry and a writing exploration.
Rachel Jackson will lead us through a simple art technique to process some of our feelings right now in memory of Shani Louk.
Others will offer spaces dedicated to dance and music.
Esther Sperber will share opportunities for advocacy and doing something while we feel so useless.
No prior experience necessary for any of these sessions. Please bring pen/paper for the writing and art breakouts.
We will be offering a facilitated conversation/support space as the final piece our gathering. Part of our healing comes from naming how we are feeling together with others and holding each other through it. You can come to these optional connection circles as a listener or a sharer — so many of us are holding feelings of loneliness and grief, fear, hopelessness, anxiety.
The only way forward is through. Processing together. Holding each other. Strengthening each other. Feeling together. We can‘t do it any other way. Let’s move through this together.
Join us Monday 7/1 @ 8:15-9:45pm ET
Please invite someone you think might want to be with us, too.
This gathering is directed by Rabbanit Dalia Davis and made possible in part by support of the Covenant Foundation, the Aviv Foundation, and inspired by each one of us.
This gathering is made possible by these generous sponsors:
This gathering welcomes women* 12+ and learners of all backgrounds.
SVIVAH is dependent on the generosity of those who choose to invest in a powerful community of women. As always, cost should never be a barrier to anything SVIVAH, but if you can, please help us show respect to our speakers/facilitators for their time and expertise.
If you would like to sponsor this gathering in honor or in memory of someone special, email us here.
Questions about ZOOM or about this gathering? Email connect@svivah.org
*SVIVAH defines "Jewish woman" as anyone wishing to be included in a circle of Jewish women. If you want to be here, we want you to be here.