Daroma Spring 5784 Training Season
[COMPLETED PROGRAM]
Meditation, Liturgy, Ancestral Connection, Nondual Learnings and fellowship with Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal
From Passover through Shavuot 5784/2024 April 22 -June 11
Turning South
The Judaeen sages said that at the old Temple, the table of offerings stood in the north, and the Menorah candelabra stood in the south. If one seeks earthly wealth, one must turn north. Those who seek wisdom, “harotze sh’yakhkim, yadrim,” must turn south, Daroma. (The Last Gate, Bava Batra 25b:8) This turning south is tied to our people’s suffering - it is said that since the destruction of the temple, the mysterious southern wind has not blown.
To resume this southern wind, to tune the mind, attune to the ancestral calendar, to open the heart, to grieve and to praise this season, I invite you to Daroma Spring 5784, a rich schedule of opportunities to practice and be in fellowship together. Daroma will be the overarching theme, tracing the season from Passover, through the Omer season and ending with Shavuot, enhanced with rich silence, song, ancestral healing and non-dual learning.
Daroma, a response to October 7th, centered in practice
For many and especially Jewish people around the world, the past fall and winter have been especially hard since the war in Israel and Palestine began. It has and still does devastated our sense of agency, emapthy, community, and sanity, gave rise to old fears and very real dangers. Rabbi Rami is a trauma-informed certified mindfulness teacher and Daroma is specifically designed for grief-lettings, relaxation and enjoyment in Jewish devotional practices, as well as rigourous resilience-training.
Daroma is part of The Jewish Monastic Project
Rami’s ongoing attempt to shape the essential gifts of the rigorous Zen training he received in his ten years of training including four years he lived at Zen Mountain Monastery and the Zen Center of New York City, woven with Jewish ancestral wisdom, modern home-dwellers life, and with the special needs of the Jewish body, psyche and spirit. Localized at Rami’s cloister in Peekskill, NY, Daroma is offered in the monastic spirit of single-pointed dedication, rigorous practice, commitment, and fellowship of the heart. (Read more of Rabbi Rami’s writing on the Jewish Monastic Project.)
Events included in Daroma
SPECIAL WEEKLY EVENTS: Pesakh, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, Shabbat, Omer, Shavuot, plus weekly learnings, meditation, chanting & liturgical events, sharing circles, and art practice.
FLOWING EVENTS: silent meditation, Omer teachings, davening (Jewish liturgy), Kabalat Shabbat, Havdallah, half-day Shabbat retreats, council listening and sharing practice, art practice and more. These events will be scheduled and announced per week.
Individual one-on-one sessions for pastoral guidance or personalized study are available by request.
See Calendar below.
Communications
Joining the program, you remotely join Daroma’s cloister. Once you sign up, you may choose to be added to an Email and/or Whatsapp lists to receive event alerts, to connect and receive further material relevant to the events. More events will be added and announced on these lists.
Commitment
Daroma, turning into the wisdom of awareness, take effort, and commitment and repetition, imprinting the practices deeper and making them embodied. Anyone can sign up anytime throughout the season. Participants are encouraged to attend all or most of the program for the most immersive experience, or to attend as their circumstance allows. Regardless of how often you join, know that your are joining a fellowship joined by a commitment to sanity and compassion.
Cost
Signing up to Daroma Spring 5784 program is free, to allow everyone to join regardless of financial resources, to give choice to which events one would like to join, and to simplify Rami’s solo administration.
Please practice generosity by choosing how to pay:
(1) towards each event as indicated for the event, And
(2) by considering making an volunary, additional general contribution of $250 (or any other amount) anytime during the season to underwrite the administration of the program and support those who cannot pay.
OR
(3) for those who are able, a one-time extraordinary contribution of $500 or more will cover all events and help underwrite the program.
No one will be turn away for lack of funds.
Note: Individual one-on-one sessions for pastoral guidance or personalized study are available upon request for an added fees.
Peace-building Impact
A percentage of proceeds from this season will be donated to a peace-building project in Israel-Palestine.
Main Schedule
As stated above, the schedule below is for the main special events. Sign up to be notified about daily/weekly practice sessions and more.
Pre-Program Information Session
On 4/17/2024 at 6pm I will hold a meditation, Niggun and learning evening, and will be open for questions about the program. You can register to it here.
The graphic of the menorah
The graphic of the menorah for Daroma at the top is inspired by a rare etching of the Menorah discovered in 2011 “in the drainage channel beneath the 2,000 Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, adjacent to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. The discovery represented what may be among the earliest renderings of the Menorah ever found. “
