Torah at the Intersection
ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Four-session Online Program
Date: May 10, 17, 24, and 31
Time: 7:30-9 ET
Cost: $72
Each week we will explore the weekly reading, or parasha, of the Torah, connecting its wisdom to traditional and new Jewish midrash, Nonviolent Communication, Buddhism, and other major streams of learning that can deeply inform our lives today.
Timed to lead us into Shavuot, the receiving of Torah on Mount Sinai, our journey into the intersections of Torah, Nonviolent Communication and Buddhism will be in service of our spiritual development and global movements for peace and justice.
Here are the four weekly Torah portions as Torah at the Intersection has explored them:
- Week of May 10, Parashat Emor: Caste
- Week of May 17, Parashat Be-har: Does the Land Belong to Us or Do We Belong to the Land?
- Week of May 24, Parashat BeChukotai : The Art of Mindful Living
- Week of May 31, Rosh Chodesh Sivan and Parashat BeMidbar: Beginning Again in the Space Between Chaos and Order
Roberta Wall was living at Thich Nhat Hanh’s Green Mountain Dharma Center when her Jewish ancestors called her to Elat Chayyim. She was a founding member of the Neshama residential community at Elat Chayyim ,where she participated in many Renewal training programs, and brought Nonviolent Communication and Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness practices into Jewish Renewal. She is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication, an ordained member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing and has continued immersion in Torah studies with teachers such as Avivah Zornberg, Rabbi David Ingber and Sarah Yehudit Schneider. Roberta also is a co founder of the Israeli-Palestinian NVC community and publishes a weekly blog, TorahattheIntersection.com. Please contact Roberta for questions about the course. Info@steps2peace.com.
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Each week I explore the weekly reading, or parasha, of the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, connecting its wisdom to Nonviolent Communication, Buddhism, and other major streams of learning that deeply inform my life.
Seminar on Application of Nonviolent Communication to Healing Collective Trauma
Workshop from the Global NVC Summit
Using Nonviolent Communication to Initiate a Conversation with a Family Member who Votes for Trump because She Fears Socialism
Connect Across Political Differences
Roberta talks about how we can use the power of Nonviolent Communication to connect with people who have very different political views from our own.
Gratitude
NVC and Mindfulness on line series:
Hi Roberta, and thanks so much for this course! I feel nourished (first time
I've ever used that word this way) in my ability to be open to others and also
to hold apparently contradictory ideas and needs in the same space and let them get along. Blessings to you and Robin and the NVC community.
—Steve Landau, MD
—Acharya Pashupati, President, AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team - USA branch)
With the Engaged Buddhism & NVC I am learning to be present, to be mindful, to be aware, its something simple and new, like conscious breathing, being in the present momenta and so on… Oh, it gives me a new way of experiencing life which runs through me. Some awakening and liberation in it. Yes, it is, and its vulnerable and painful ... I have found your course so valuable because mindfulness in my experience is the most important principle I have learned in NVC; and Buddhism added a lot to this. I like your way of teaching which for me is flexible, kind and deep, with much dedication to it; it’s the way you are in the world. Thanks for your loving and compassionate being.
— Eastern Europe participant
...Because of your course, I became more aware of my inner feelings when I am communicating by email, voicemail or text. I paused before texting her again. And then I got curious about what her life is like now with her kids and husband at home, while she tries to work upstairs. I felt some compassion and a deeper yearning to connect rather than an irritation at her unavailability. I sent a text from the place of curiosity, and compassion. ... I think that there is an energetic ether that communicates even more than our words, in some cases. And clearly my different attitude and demanding energies were replaced, and she actually RESPONDED!
So, from this experience, I felt empowered to take more frequent pregnant, aware pauses.
—U.S. participant
More webinars, blogs and interviews with Roberta
Connect Before you Correct!
Video with Roberta Wall
Personal with Roberta
Radio Interview:
https://amindfulemergence.com/radio-show-2/5/
(scroll down to podcast 55)
Featured Article about Roberta
Roberta's Times of Israel blogs
Talkblog Interview with Roberta on Communicating with Compassion
My grandson's first demonstration!
NVC Training in Daburiyya , Arab village near Nazareth, Israel
Women Waging Peace training in Israel with Roberta Wall and Yael Brisker