San Diego Jewish Renewal

San Diego Jewish Renewal

ph: Shir Ha-Yam 619-251-4618
alt: Elijah Minyan 760-943-8370

San Diego Jewish Renewal Communities

Members of the ALEPH Network of Communities

www.aleph.org

Shir Ha-Yam Fall 2020

L'Shana Tovah!

Join us for these Jewish Renewal events!!

Upcoming Shir Ha -Yam Events:

(Below the Self Massage workshop description
is information for High Holiday zooming and how to join
Shir Ha-Yam! )

As we say goodbye to this most intense and challenging year, Erin Raskin DAMC ,Lac is offering us a way to
de- stress !

Join us for:

Self Care with Self-Massage
Thursday, September 24
10:00 – 11:15 am
Physical touch as a way to sooth
our nervous system

Join us to learn self-massage techniques to sooth your nervous system and provide the benefits of touch during this time of physical distancing and touch famine. Since professional massages are off the table (get it?), this is the next best thing!
In this FREE self care session we will:

Describe the benefits of touch
Locate and massage therapeutic pressure points
Practice nervous system soothing technique through self-massage

Discuss therapeutic massage tools
Support each other and come together in community

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/96084219590

Erin E. Raskin, DACM, Lac will be leading this session. She is a doctor of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Erin has been involved in various aspects of meditation, yoga, Ayurveda and Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) for over 35 years. One of her favorite topics is Yǎng Shēng (nourishing life) which refers to the wisdom of selfcare, lifestyle medicine, movement, meditation, nutrition, detoxification, therapeutic touch, sexuality, sleep, rest, nature, music, art, creativity, gratitude, spirituality and natural healing. Yǎng Shēng is a key aspect of TEAM that informs our health, aging, living and dying.

Below are Jewish Renewal Zoom offerings for the High Holidays:
Share with your friends and relatives!:

Wonderful local offering with The Elijah Minyan led by Rabbi Wayne Dosick and Cantor Kathy Robbins who will lead high holiday zoom services. For information on how to access please contact him at wdosick@gmail.com or 760-943-8370

ALEPH is offering the following :
https://kolaleph.org/2020/09/02/high-holiday-offerings-from-aleph-network-communities/

Sweet New Year with R. Geela Rayzel Raphael
Saturday, September 19
Time: 8 pm EDT (5 pm PDT)
Cost: Pay-what-you-can
Led by: Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael and friends
A new year brings new opportunity for blessing and renewal. Join Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael and friends on the second night of Rosh Hashanah for a new year welcoming celebration! Gather to "even the frayed edges of our lives” as we set intentions for sweetness for 5781. Usher in the year with song, poetry, teachings, art, and tradition. Bring your holy selves, your broken places and your souls yearnings for the next cycle. Bring a candle, a cup of wine/grape juice, and an apple and honey to the Zoom room! Together, we will bless the new year!
https://aleph.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=294

Rabbi Shefa Gold -August 20 through September 28
A Contemplative, Ecstatic Transformative Journey
Through the Days of Awe 5781
Online Offerings and Services
Through Elul, 4 Thursday evening KZoom sessions focus on our t’shuvah work. If registered, you’ll receive weekly Elul letters to help the process of realignment. The High Holy Days services will include chant, movement, silence, poetry, teaching and some traditional liturgy (a Torah service with group aliot, blessings, and 20-minute silent Amida) on both Rosh Hashana Day and Yom Kippur. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, you can participate in a KZoom session in preparation for Shabbat Shuvah.

For details, visit the the Online HHD 5781 page or the ALEPH HHD page. To register, visit the registration page.

Ruach Hamidbar Spirit of the Desert led
by Sarah Leah Grafstein and friends for 48 hours of offerings!!
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Safe in our homes we will have access to these and many more wonderful doorways into the New Year!!!

JOIN SHIR HA-YAM
Thank you for your support if you have already beat the crowd and paid this years dues!!!

If you haven't send your check yet, the Shir Ha-Yam steering committee invites you to become a member (or renew your membership) for the coming 2020-21 year. We are committed to supporting our community during this most challenging time of Covid 19 with our Zoom services and classes. We are a Jewish Renewal volunteer led group and depend on your participation as well as your dues.
Your dues support programs such as our SHABBAT morning services, FRIDAY NIGHT SHABBAT meditations, Chant Practice Group and HOLIDAY programs. They enable us to sponsor workshops and classes and we know many of you have enjoyed them for so many years ! We look forward to providing more spiritually uplifting events next year. And maybe even in person again when that becomes possible and desirable! (May it come speedily in our days!) See www.sandiegojewishrenewal.org for services and events sponsored by Shir Ha-Yam .

For more information on ALEPH please check out www.aleph.org. They are offering many wonderful programs during this Covid 19 zoom-only time! If you already are an ALEPH member or belong through another ALEPH affiliated organization, such as the Elijah Minyan, discount the $36.00 ALEPH membership fee.
We wish you a joyful and healthy and
Covid-19 free new year!
Shir Ha-Yam steering committee
Deborah Kantor, Rhonda Mason, David Rafsky, Ahouva Steinhaus

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Membership Form
Members will receive a reduced rate on all
Shir Ha-Yam sponsored events.
Please RSVP by October 1 by sending this form with a check made out to:
Shir Ha-Yam c/o. Ahouva Steinhaus, 3310 Laurel St, San Diego CA 92104. Please call Rhonda Mason with questions or sliding scale needs: 619-251-4618
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2020-21 Membership dues :
$ 90 for in individual + $36 for ALEPH = $126
$180 for a couple/family + $36 for ALEPH = $216

Name(s): ____________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________
Phone #s: ______________________Email:_________________________
Dues enclosed for 2020-21 (see above) $________

I would like to participate in one of the following committees: (Please circle)

Special Events, Planning, Leyning Torah, Co-leading Shabbat Services, Website support

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Zoom into 2021!!

Shir Ha-Yam

Shir Ha- Yam is a collaborative, lay led chavurah that began as a grass roots gathering in 1995. Shir Ha Yam evolved from a group of spiritual seekers with a variety of Jewish backgrounds, who were looking for a meaningful, joyful approach to Jewish practice. This led us eventually to Jewish Renewal. We are now a member community of ALEPH, Alliance for Jewish Renewal.

www.ALEPH.org

Today, we are a community of 200 people, of all ages and levels of Jewish observance. We offer participatory, egalitarian services on a monthly basis. Holiday celebrations, meditation,workshops and shabbatons are offered as public services and hosted by this group.

See 'Services' page for schedule .

Contact Rhonda Mason;

619-251-4618

rhondmason@aol.com

davidrafsky@att.net 619 846 3102

Elijah Minyan

http://www.elijahminyan.com/

TheThe Elijah Minyan is in it's 27th year of hosting High Holiday Services and bi weekly shabbat services. Led by author and scholar Rabbi Wayne Dosick, Ph.D. Services are hosted in members homes around the county through out the year.

Rabbi Dosick is the author of several best selling books on Judaism and Kabbalah, including;

'Living Judaism,' 'Spriritualy Healing the Adult Indigo', and '20 Minute Kaballah',and The Real Name of God

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Wayne D. Dosick&page=1

Contact Rabbi Dosick; 760-943-8370

wdosick@gmail.com

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The Elijah Minyan meditation group led by Dr. Burt Bialik meets monthly.

Dr. Burt Bialik is an internationally known educator, meditation leader and teacher. He has been teaching Jewish meditation for over 20 years, and is the developer of 'Dharma Shalom'.

Contact Dr. Bialik; (760) 435-9355

bbialik@cox.net

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San Diego Jewish Renewal

ph: Shir Ha-Yam 619-251-4618
alt: Elijah Minyan 760-943-8370