Miracles, Magic, and Miriam's Dance: A celebration of redemption

Rabbinic Student Emily Stern will join Rabbi Charna in an exploration of our redemption from Egypt. We will sing, dance, pray, and study together, as we celebrate what it means to find freedom from our tight narrow places.

Reb Charna and Student Rabbi Emily will guide us through playful prayer and contemplative chanting, prayer, and discussion. Together we will explore the joy of Shabbat, the nature of the miracles the Children of Israel experienced in the desert, and the hint of shadow that comes when so much of God’s light is expressed.
 
Beshalach offers the miracles of the parting of the Sea, the Great Song sung by Moses, as well as the dance of Miriam and the women. It speaks about the cloud/anon, manna, and magical water well that sustained our ancestors against all odds in the desert. And it introduces the concept of Amalek, our great shadow dancing partner, for all time.
 
Please come ready to enter into the territory of your heart and body, to lift up the heaviness that we find ourselves in, lift it up to joy. If you have the opportunity to read the parashah ahead of time, that would be wonderful!

Click the links below for the Torah portions
https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.13.17-14.8?lang=bi&aliyot=0
or
https://www.chabad.org/parshah/default_cdo/jewish/Torah-Portion.htm

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 Rabbi Charna Rosenholtz, MA. is an accomplished teacher specializing in psycho-spiritual growth and applications of spiritual wisdom. Ordained as a Hebrew wisdom teacher (Maggid) by Rabbi’s Zalman Schacter-Shalomi and Tirzah Firestone in 2007, she also holds a Master's degree in comparative religious studies from Naropa University in Boulder.  A visionary, Charna believes in the role of Hebrew Scriptures as a living guide for becoming the best that we can be. Charna has specialized in teaching and leading Torah studies since 1998 and has presented on issues of spirituality to all age groups. Rabbi Charna was Ordained as a Rabbi in 2021 through Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. For more information on Rabbi Charna click here.

Emily Stern is a rabbinic student with the ALEPH ordination program and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is excited to lead services with Charna to celebrate Charna’s ordination as Rabbi and experience the joy of Shabbat with all of you!