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Daroma: Temple of One 5786 Winter Practice Season
As winter descends with its long darker nights and following a long season of collective pain and uncertainty, I invite you to Daroma: Temple of One 5786 Winter Practice Season. Ten weeks of online fellowship, practice, and learning, guided by the fierce wisdom of the Kotzker Rebbe and rooted in the teaching of כולא קמיה כלא חשיב (“before the Infinite, all is unthought / as nothing”) — echoed in Zohar, Tanya, and the Kotzker’s own fire. We’ll explore the tension and freedom between ache, restraint, and release through texts on consciousness, grief, and the non-duality in meditation & prayer. We’ll gather weekly on Saturday nights (including Havdalah), through Hanukkah and emerging on Tu Bishvat — with occasional pop-up sessions.
Bearing Witness at the Nova Festival Memorial, NYC, Event, June 21 2024
On bearing witness at the Nova Festival memorial exhibition in New York City, June 2024
Daroma Spring 5784 Training Season
Meditation, Liturgy, Ancestral Connection, Nondual Learnings and fellowship with Rabbi Rami Avraham EfalFrom Passover through Shavuot 5784/2024 April 22 -June 11
Nondual Readings in the Talmud March 5784 Series
Over three evenings Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal met with practitioners to meditate, practice absorption using niggunim hassidic melodies, and dive into the wisdom of the Talmud, the 1500 year old tome of Jewish wisdom, through fresh nondual eyes. Reflecting on the story of Khuma Drops her Sleeve (Ketubot 65a:9) Gamliel and the Moons (Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2:8,) and Reb Yossei Praying in a Ruin (Berakhot 3a:12.)
Song Circle for Tu b'Av 5783 Evening of Love & Awareness, 8/1/2023 8pm ET (online)
Tuesday 8/1/2023 8pm-9:30pm ET. An evening dedicated to the song of love of lovers, and love of awareness itself.
Ma’a’gal Ki’nah / Grief Ritual for Tisha b'Av 5783
9 (Tisha) b’Av, an online grief ritual event, open to all. 7/26/2023 7:30-9:30pm ET.
Tending to the Ashkenazi Jewish Ancestral Pain-Body on Yom Hashoah 5783
Community Chanting, Prayer, and Listening-Sharing on Holocaust Memorial Day 5783, Tuesday 4/18/2023 7pm ET, Online