A four-week course with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Mondays, 2-3:15pm PT | 3-4:15pm MT | 5:00 – 6:15pm ET
November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 2024

This past year has made it tragically clear how the traumatic histories of our ancestors can influence our reality—both personally and on the world stage. Learn to heal these wounds using wisdom from the crossroads of Jewish texts, neuroscience, and depth psychology.

Transform the residual effects of your and your family’s past to reclaim your innate wisdom and freedom in the present.

Join us for Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma, a four-week introduction to healing the wounds of intergenerational Jewish trauma, offered by renowned author and teacher, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D.

Both our sacred texts and scientific data teach that traumatic wounds don’t simply disappear over time. The residues of the difficult circumstances that our ancestors endured over generations ripple across time, often cascading down the family tree, causing painful unconscious patterns that become stuck and affect us, our children, and our families.

This four-week course is designed to introduce the work of Jewish Ancestral Healing in a most personal sense, to help alleviate the residues of inherited traumas and dissolve their negative influences.

Rabbi Firestone will draw from her acclaimed book, Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Monkfish, 2019), which received the 2020 Nautilus Book Award Gold in Psychology and the Jewish Women’s Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology 2020 book award. This groundbreaking work employs interviews, case studies, and her own autobiographical narratives to demonstrate how trauma residue passes from generation to generation – and how it can be transformed.