7-day Jewish Meditation Retreat w Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Miles Krassen, Joanna Katz & Jeff Roth March 4, 2007

Take the opportunity for a profound spiritual experience with this seven-day meditation retreat.

A Transformative Spiritual Experience
Using the vehicle of silence and a variety of Jewish meditation approaches, we will look more deeply into our own lives, casting light on our pain; seeing more clearly how easily we shut down, hurting ourselves and those around us; and coming to a place of greater wisdom, joy and compassion. Glimpse the divine presence that pervades all of life from this expanded state of awareness.

Structure of the Retreat
This retreat includes periods of daily prayer and chant. Regular instructions in meditation will help guide both beginning and advanced practitioners as you enter the sacred space created by the retreat process. The retreat, which is conducted in social silence, includes times for questions and answers as well as small group and private interviews with the instructors. The week is culminated in a deep celebration of Shabbat followed by the chance to hear of each other’s learning as the retreat comes to a close. Reb Zalman will be present and will teach during the first day of the retreat.

Program Costs
All teachings during the retreat are being given freely by the teaching staff.
Participants will be asked to make a voluntary contribution to support the teachers.

Total costs for the room & board range from single suites with private bath @ $1473 to dormitory rooms @ $609.

To register contact Shambhala Mountain Center, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, 1-888-788-7221 ShambhalaMountain.org

Some financial aid is available. Requests for financial aid should be made to Rabbi Jeff Roth, [email protected].

Faculty Biographies
Rabbi Joanna Katz, co-founder of Elat Chayyim, has been a hospital and college chaplain. She is currently the Jewish chaplain at Taconic Correctional Facility. She facilitates an ongoing women’s meditation group that is in its fifth year. She is a graduate of the Dedicated Practitioners Program of Spirit Rock and the mother of three.

Rabbi Miles Krassen received ordination in 1996 from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. In 1990, he completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Krassen has taught at Smith College, Temple University and at Oberlin College, where he served as director of the Jewish Studies Program. He is currently on the faculty of Naropa University. He is the author of Uniter of Heaven and Earth, a study of mystical experience and non-duality in early Hasidism and his annotated translation of a major kabbalistic text, Isaiah Horowitz: Generations of Adam, is a volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality series.

Rabbi Jeff Roth is co-founder of Elat Chayyim where he served as Executive Director and Spiritual Director for 13 years. He is an experienced meditation teacher and the facilitator of over 60 Jewish meditation retreats.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was ordained at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, and received his PhD at the Hebrew Union College. He ordains rabbis through the ALEPH Rabbinate Program, is the founder of the Spiritual Eldering Institute and was the "Holder of the Chair of World Wisdom" at Naropa Institute.

Official Website: http://awakenedheartproject.org