This year, deepen your High Holy day experience in community, while strengthening your immune system, reducing stress, and awakening inner freedom. Join Reb Brian Yosef for learning, singing and meditation on ten essential High Holiday prayer chants, through the lens of Kabbalah. All are welcome, and especially good for anyone wanting a deeper connection to the Days of Awe this year. Each workshop will explore a core High Holiday chant for both personal and global transformation. 

Just as the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot correspond to the seven lower Sefirot (spiritual qualities) of the Tree of Life, so too, the seven weeks beginning with Tisha b’Av and leading up to Rosh Hashanah are also portals into these transformational energies. This series of ten workshops (which begins three weeks before Tisha b’Av) will explore all ten sefirot experientially through ten core High Holiday chants.

This program will also prepare you and ramp up to this year’s special High Holy Day celebrations with Urban Adamah and Torah of Awakening!

Classes in the Series:

Class #1: Keter – Oneness, Primal Will (“Shofar Chant”) - click here for a summary and to see the texts referred to in the class

Class #2: Hokhmah – Spaciousness (“Hashiveinu – Return Again”) - click here for a summary and to see the texts referred to in the class

Class #3: Binah – The Palace (“Akhat Sha’alti – Only One Thing”)

Class #4: Malkhut – Sovereignty  (“Hashem Melekh, Hashem Malakh – Everything is the Divine”)

Class #5: Yesod – Joy  (“Rakhamana – Compassionate One!”)

Class #6: Hod – Humility, Gratitude (“El Nora Alilah– Divine, Awesome, Transcendent”)

Class #7: Netzakh – Persistence (“Aneinu – Answer Us!”)

Class #8: Tiferet – Radiant Majesty (“Avinu Malkeinu – Our Father, Our King”)

Class #9: Gevurah – Strength (“Unetaneh Tokef – Proclaiming the Power”)

Class #10: Hesed – Love (“Adon HaSlikhot – Master of Forgiveness”)

Reb Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks has been teaching on the practice of Presence (meditation, mindfulness) and Judaism since 2006, and founded the online Jewish meditation community, Torah of Awakening, in 2016. He is the author of Kabbalah for Beginners, published by Callisto Media, and Integral Jewish Meditation: Three Portals of Presence for Spiritual Awakening. Reb Brian Yosef received s’miha (ordination) as Minister of Sacred Music from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l  (2012), Spiritual Teacher and Awakener of Souls from Shaykh Ibrahim Baba Farajaje (may his secret be sanctified) and Rabbi SaraLeya Schley (2012), Jewish Meditation Teacher certification from Dr. Avram Davis (2004), and holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music (1991).

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If you are enjoying this course, you are invited to go deeper and establish yourself in a heightened state of Presence and Inner Freedom through the Ten Sefirot and Twenty-Two Hebrew Letters in this upcoming six-part course:

Mastering Presence
Applying the Ten Sefirot and Twenty-Two Hebrew Letters Meditation Practice
Six Wednesday Nights, August 5th – September 9th

This course is free to all Torah of Awakening upper level members. To learn more and sign up for a free month, click the link below. After you sign up, you will be given the opportunity to upgrade and join in the Mastering Presence course that begins August 5th.

Learn More and Free Month of Membership:
https://torahofawakening.net/masteringpresence

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