Shabbat of the Child Culminating Shabbat with Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Friday, April 28
Kabbalat Shabbat Services: 6:30 PM | Talk with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone: 9 PM
Onsite at The West End Presbyterian Church & Online
No registration required. To join on Zoom, get link here.
Can’t make the dinner onsite? Join on Zoom for Rabbi Firestone’s teaching at 9PM. No registration required. Click here to join on Zoom.
Saturday, April 29
Join us Saturday morning for Open Book at 8:45 and Shabbat Morning Services at onsite the Romemu Center or online (get Zoom links here). No registration is required. Following services, join us for Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Firestone.
Can’t come to the onsite lunch? Join Rabbi Firestone’s teaching on Zoom at 1:30 PM. No registration required. Click here to join on Zoom.
Sunday, April 30 — In-person only
9 AM – 1:30 PM at the Romemu Center (176 W 105th Street)
We will start the morning with breakfast at 9 AM and the workshop will begin at 10 AM. Since Rabbi Firestone’s teaching on Shabbat will lay the groundwork for this workshop, you must register for the Shabbat Lunch & Learn on April 29 in order to join for this workshop.
Everyone who attends this workshop will receive a copy of Rabbi Firestone’s book Wounds into Wisdom. Cost for workshop: $75 ($50 for Romemu members).
Register here.
Weekend Event Description
Each of us holds tremendous powers to change the trajectory of our lives and the life of the world. When we face our own trauma history and that of our family, we begin a soul journey that releases enormous generative energy with which we can heal ourselves and others. At this introductory weekend (Shabbaton), we will begin the work of untying the intergenerational knots in our personal and ancestral histories. Our purpose (kavana, intention) is to free and energize ourselves to be our most wise, compassionate, and impactful selves in a world that desperately needs us.
While this work is based in Jewish source teachings, it is open to people of all ethnic and faith backgrounds. Please attend both Saturday and Sunday, as Rabbi Firestone will be teaching the premises of ancestral healing on Saturday and setting the context for a deeper experiential dive on Sunday. Since Saturday’s teaching will lay the ground work for Sunday’s discussion, you must register for both Saturday and Sunday in order to attend the Sunday program.
Drawing from Jewish wisdom, remarkable stories and case studies, and the field of depth psychology, Rabbi Firestone will demonstrate how personal life-riddles often originate in our ancestral legacies, and how we can transform their seemingly impenetrable mysteries into usable meaning.
You may use this form to register for either Friday night dinner or Saturday Lunch & Learn or both. If you register for the Saturday Lunch & Learn you will also have the option to register for the Sunday workshop.