SUPPORTING THE SICK, ENCOUNTERING THE SHECHINAH
with Shoshana Batshemesh Jedwab — Mondays 8-9 pm ET / 5-6 pm PT, July 7, 14, 21
Jewish tradition teaches that the Shechinah is present above the head of the sick individual. Jewish healing practices require the practice of reverence, compassion, and sacred presence. These practices complement medical treatments and challenge the social isolation and depression that are comorbid with illness. In these three classes, we will explore practices of supporting the sick and consider how we meet the Divine Presence well in these tender marginal spaces.
The class will be taught via Zoom and can also be accessed via phone. All sessions will be recorded; you can take the class even if the time block does not work for you. For financial assistance or scholarship opportunities, please contact liviah@beitkohenet.org.
Cost: $100 + $25 non-refundable registration fee
Shoshana Jedwab
Shoshana Jedwab is an intuitive who feels gifted by uncanny experiences that have helped her to orient in this incarnation. Shoshana (Batshemesh) Jedwab served as founding faculty member and sacred drummer for the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute where she facilitated powerful primal prayer, vibrant Torah service ritual translations, and taught Jewish sacred foolery, contemporary mystical experience, Jewish spiritual practices, and Jewish history. Shoshana Jedwab lives in the world as a percussionist, singer-songwriter, worship leader, prize-winning Jewish educator and the Jewish Life Coordinator at the A.J. Heschel Middle School. Shoshana Jedwab’s original, hip-shaking, prayer music grounds body and spirit, and brings the ancestral past into joyous contemporary practice. The original songs of Shoshana’s 2016 debut album, “I Remember,” and her 2018 anthem, “Where You Go,” emerged from ceremonies Shoshana was leading, and are now being sung, and danced to, in churches, synagogues, weddings and protest marches around the world. Shoshana Jedwab released her popular prayer singles, “Openings” in 2020, “Torah Orah” in 2022 and “Life Is Born” in 2023. Shoshana Jedwab was included in Jewish Rock Radio’s Jewish Women Who Rock the Worship World. https://www.shoshanajedwab.com/