Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

Shabbat Shuva (Shabbath of Return), Healing Service Saturday, September 25th, 11-11:45am PST On Zoom Hosted by Kehilla Community Synagogue in collaboration with the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center Led by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and Beth Dickson This will be a service of prayer, lamenting, and reflection, as we focus on the losses of the year that passed and turn towards imagining a more interdependent and connected world. We will create a sacred space for healing our bodies, spirit...s, communities, and the planet. It will be a part of Kehilla's Shabbat Shuva service from 10am-12pm and you are welcome to join just for the Healing Service or for the whole morning. According to Jewish tradition this Shabbat in between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is a particularly holy time for reflection. This will be a Jewish service that will center the experiences of sick and disabled people. All are welcome to attend. Live closed captioning (CART) will be offered. To register: https://zoom.us//regis/tJAucuoqT0jHdRVpr1IgSLA_WnIrq7NnVoc ID: [A fiddlehead fern in light green about to unfurl against a black and dark green background] See more

Shabbat Nachamu is a time for comfort and hope, beginning our seven-week journey from Tishah B’av to Rosh Hashanah. Rabbi Eric Weiss of Bay Area Jewish Healing ...Center offers this prayer for healing from his CCAR Press book, "Mishkan R’fuah: Where Healing Resides." May it comfort us when we feel broken or lost. Shabbat Shalom. See more

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In this moment of revolution and pandemic - and as the US is beginning to open things up in varying degrees this summer - I want to be sure everyone knows how to be connected to the COVID Grief Network. Spread the word to your communities, and share this post! https://www.covidgriefnetwork.org/ The COVID Grief Network connects young adults who are grieving the illness or death of someone close to COVID-19 to free emotional and spiritual support--and to each other. Our mission is to undo isolation for young adults grieving in the midst of this crisis.

Join Bay Area Jewish Healing Center Rabbi Elliot Kukla for a morning of learning on disability, pandemic, and revelation

Thank you for joining us over these past several weeks. We hope you will enjoy this gift from us. Please click on this soothing video meditation. You may want to settle in at your screen, close your eyes and just listen, or you may want to grab a cup of coffee and let your eyes go into soft focus. Here is Rabbi Natan Fenner:

Don’t panic, but be mindful. Help flatten the curve.

Is there someone missing from your life right now? Being with other people in grief can help. Bereavement Spiritual Support Group in Formation Fridays, 12-1:30pm, Feb 14-April 3, 2020 Kehilla Community Synagogue, hosted by the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center... This group will provide a supportive, non-judgmental context with a spiritual framing for anyone who has lost a human being. All types of loss are welcome, as well as all genders and family relationships. No Jewish knowledge or identification is required. The space is wheelchair accessible and low-scent, please be in touch if you have other access needs. Pre-registration is required, and we will not be able to accommodate drop-ins. To register, or for more information, please contact Rabbi Elliot Kukla, [email protected]

After 50 years Shma Now Journal of Jewish Thought ends publication with this final issue on numbering our days with essays on dying and endings from BAJHC rabbi Elliot Rose as well as Rabbi David Ellenson @alice shalvi and more.

We are so excited to be a part of creating this important event. Please join us!