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Presenters Sylvia Boorstein

Where Do You Want To Go (Aug 2020) – Sylvia Boorstein

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Sylvia Boorstein Event & Date: August 2020 Zoom Retreat Podcast Notes: Sylvia asks us, how much are you paying attention?  She says that it’s important to know what’s happening each moment, in order that we are responding to and being fully engaged in life. Then we can take wise and compassionate action

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Q&A (Aug 2020) with Sylvia Boorstein

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Sylvia Boorstein Event & Date: August 2020 Zoom Retreat Podcast Notes: Sylvia answers our questions.

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Practice Instructions and Sit – Thursday (Aug 2020) – Sylvia Boorstein

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Silvia Boorstein Event & Date: August 2020 Zoom Retreat Podcast Notes: Sylvia discuses sitting meditation, with a knowing of what’s coming up – what’s going on in the world round me – and what’s going in me in response to the world, and what should I do with this information, what should I do […]

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Mincha (Aug 2020) with Sylvia Boorstein

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Sylvia Boorstein Event & Date: August 2020 Zoom Retreat Podcast Notes: Sylvia takes a line from Ashrei (Psalm 145) and brings it to life for us.  The phrases of the psalm have been chosen to soothe the mind.

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Opening Talk (Aug 2020) – Sylvia Boorstein

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Sylvia Boorstein Event & Date: August 2020 Zoom Retreat Podcast Notes: Sylvia discusses what is our intention in sitting this retreat.  What is important to know, and towards what end?  How to hold things in perspective and to have a more expansive view; where everything is admissible and worthy of consideration

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Attentiveness as an Expression of Kindness (Aug 2020) – Sylvia Boorstein

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Sylvia Boorstein Event & Date: August 2020 Zoom Retreat Podcast Notes: Sylvia instructions us to remember a moment of kindness, something we did or that was done to us.  Inclining the mind toward kindness allows us to be steady and resilient in our practice.  Moments of kindness connect us with each other, in caring, […]

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How to Feel That We Have Enough

Presented by: Sylvia Boorstein

Presenter: Sylvia Boorstein Event & Date: N/A Podcast Notes: The premise of an awakened mind is creating the kind of peace that people can have when they are content, regardless of circumstances. We cultivate a mind that focuses on the fact that life itself is happening, rather then on the myriad complex details that arise. […]

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Upcoming Events

  • Preparing for a New Jewish Year in a Changing World – Aug 22-28,2022
  • Two Week Jewish Meditation Retreat – Nov/Dec 2022

Recent Retreat Videos

August 2021: Preparing For A New Jewish Year In A Period Of Worldly Challenge

Recent Podcasts

  • Morning Davvening – Friday (Aug 2020) – Jeff Roth; Joanna Katz; Sylvia Boorstein; Norman Fischer
  • What’s Really Important (June 2020) – talk by Rabbi Jeff Roth
  • Tuesday Morning Davvening (June 2020) – led by Rabbis Jeff Roth & Ariel Sholklapper and Ruth Jacobson
  • Well-Being (June 2020) – talk by Ruth Jacobson
  • Thursday Morning Davvening (June 2020) – led by Rabbis Jeff Roth & Ariel Sholklapper and Ruth Jacobson
  • Skillfull Intention (June 2020) – talk by Ruth Jacobson
  • Overview of our Jewish Theological Approach to Our Practice (June 2020) – Rabbi Jeff Roth
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