Hi, people who have expressed interest in prayer writing classes! Hope you are well and happy.
I am hoping to offer a variety of prayer/kavannot (intentions) writing workshops on Zoom starting this month and continuing into the winter and I hope you will be able to join me for any (or all!!) of them. After each session, you will have written your own prayers in an atmosphere of trust and safety, guided by prompts, meditations and discussons and shared those prayers (but only if you want to) with your fellow prayer writers. The experience can be profound, emotional and fun.
I can do any and all of these below, either for individuals or in classes (I hope for at least three in each class). Please let me know which of these interest you, or if you have another topic you’d like to write prayers and kavannot about.
Dates and times TBA based on your availability. References available upon request.
Prices:
o Classes, $50/ session per individual
(If you are arranging a workshop for your organization, price will depend on number of sessions, number of participants and topic.)
o The Amidah, 7 sessions: $300 pricing
o Individual tutoring $75/session (for prayer writing and/or on the liturgy)
All sessions can be done individually or in workshops. All sessions are half off if you’re one of my Patreon patrons ($18/month or more). If you see a series you like but are unable to attend all sessions, we can try to work that out. Below are workshops on offer, thus far:
1 session Workshop possibilities:
1. Healing
2. Hanukkah
3. Tu Bishvat
4. Tachanun
5. Any topics on which you’d like to write prayers and kavannot
Workshop 2: Prayers for the Pandemic and 2020 2 sessions.
1. Prayers about Anger, Claustrophibia, Fear, Despair, Hope, Mourning
2. Prayers of Healing (Personal and Community), Change and Hope
Workshop 3: Social Change & Justice 2 sessions
1. Prayers for What’s Wrong
Workshop 4 - Morning and Bedtime Prayers 3 sessions, (maybe 4 sessions if you get into it, no extra charge if that happens)
1. Waking up and Going to Bed (Modeh Ani, Ma Tovu, Bedtime Shema)
2. Birchot HaShachar – Morning Blessings
3. Morning Blessings, cont.
Workshop 5 The Shabbat Amidah – 6-8 sessions (approx.)*
1. THE PETICHA Open our mouths in Holy Conversation? What is Praise? Why do we pray?
2. ANCESTORS – Are we praying alone or with our families, with other Jews, with history?Celebrate them, mourn them,
3. POWER – What is the power of God, Prayer, Community, Life, Death, however we understand those?
4. HOLINESS – What is divinity, what does it mean to name God? What is holiness? Is it something we pray to or for or something altogether? How does separation create holiness? Which God do we pray to, God of Torah, Midrash, Rambam, Zohar, shtetl, parents, ours, our childrens?
5. SHABBAT – what is holy about a day of rest? What is deep rest?
6. WE ARE THANKFUL – do we bend our knees and bow as we pray gratitude? How do we jkeep this profound?
7. PEACE AND WHOLENESS – Shalom comes from the Hebrew word that means “Wholeness” How do we pray for wholeness?
8. OPEN MY HEART – We pray to be heard, we pray to hear.
*If any of you want to do the weekday Amidah and write your own versions of the 13 petitionary prayers, I’d love to do that, if there are enough of you we can do a separate class, that would probably need another 2-3 sessions.
Let me know if you are interested in any of these!
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