Shabbat Unbound is an experiment. What happens if we treat Friday-night not just as a chance to roll through a catalogue of prayers, but if instead we take each Shabbat as a chance to really dive deep into one prayer in particular? Over the course of 12 months, we will seek to answer that question. Instead of reciting fifteen prayers in one sitting, we'll explore one prayer deeply — through song, textual exploration, group conversation and more. And through those 12 months, we’ll make our way through the second edition of the world’s longest-ever (and hopefully, most-rewarding-ever) Friday night service

Thursdays - 3 Weeks
2:00-3:30 pm ET/11 am-12:30 pm PT

September 4 · 11 · 18

Join Rena Yehuda Newman for an exploration into Jewish images and comix creation. In Jewish learning, we’re often familiar with text study – but what about text-and-image study? The themes of Elul are visually rich, striking, and introspective ahead of the High Holidays. Comix, spelled with an “x”, are part of a tradition of “co-mixing” text and image: a powerful and underrated tool in the spiritual toolbox for engaging with ritual and liturgy.

In this class, students will create their own comics using Elul-themed prompts, study and illustrate Elul related texts like Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) and high holiday liturgy, and learn how to apply the classical Pardes exegesis method to each others’ work, understanding the comix we make as meaningful midrash. Using techniques inspired by Lynda Barry, no drawing experience is necessary for this drawing-heavy Elul course.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Wednesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 ET / 5 - 6:30 pm PT

September 3 · 10 · 17

Some say that the Jewish liturgy—the base of our prayer tradition—was composed in prehistoric times by the “Men of the Great Assembly,” and has survived, unchanged, since then. History tells a different story: one of constant evolution, contested meaning, and experimentation, from ancient times to just yesterday.

Join us for a hands-on experience of making and unmaking the text of Jewish prayer: what do we say when we pray, and when we say it, what do we mean? Explore the hidden motivations behind the nusach, or wording, or the prayerbook, and develop a new understanding—informed by a contemporary liberatory political approach—of how to read it, understand it, and live it.

This class will use literary, theological, and philosophical methods to unpack and analyze prayers, then offer a three-step method to deal with them in our own time. Drawing from the antizionist siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, class participants will be empowered to pray on a more personal level, and craft the Jewish prayerbook into the personal guide they need to confront the struggles of the moment.

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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Tuesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 pm ET/5 - 6:30 pm PT

September 2 · 9 · 16

Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to explore and prepare for the coming high holy days and a new year. Although most people know about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many people are not familiar or have practiced with the spirituality and treasures of creating an Elul spiritual practice. Each of us is on a unique journey as an embodied soul.

This three-session class is an opportunity to explore, develop, try out or renew an Elul practice especially designed for you - your own personal Elul tool kit. Together we will explore the spirituality of Elul and dive into a bunch of different practices both traditional and renewed ones - that can help you use this special time to open your heart and refresh your soul as you prepare for the new year and the biggest holiday/holy day season in the Jewish calendar.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Mondays - 3 Weeks
7-8:30 pm ET / 4-5:30 pm PT

September 1 · 8 · 15

In these times of rising fascism, Jewish people and organizations are trying to find the moral compasses that will lead us through. The prophetic voices of Tanakh, the strength of committed Jews, the storytelling power of midrash are all currently being used to hold our hope. But what of blatant political statements traditional to Judaism?

The Mussar movement is a Jewish ethical and educational movement filled with a variety of practices meant to focus moral conduct within spiritual paths. Many of these early Mussar leaders living at the heights of the Industrial Revolution's dehumanizing power spoke about worker's rights, mutual aid, and community power in ways that still resonate today. Learn more by registering for this participatory, 3-part mini-course!
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Thursdays - 3 Weeks
2:00-3:30 pm ET/11 am-12:30 pm PT

September 4 · 11 · 18

Join Rena Yehuda Newman for an exploration into Jewish images and comix creation. In Jewish learning, we’re often familiar with text study – but what about text-and-image study? The themes of Elul are visually rich, striking, and introspective ahead of the High Holidays. Comix, spelled with an “x”, are part of a tradition of “co-mixing” text and image: a powerful and underrated tool in the spiritual toolbox for engaging with ritual and liturgy.

In this class, students will create their own comics using Elul-themed prompts, study and illustrate Elul related texts like Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) and high holiday liturgy, and learn how to apply the classical Pardes exegesis method to each others’ work, understanding the comix we make as meaningful midrash. Using techniques inspired by Lynda Barry, no drawing experience is necessary for this drawing-heavy Elul course.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Wednesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 ET / 5 - 6:30 pm PT

September 3 · 10 · 17

Some say that the Jewish liturgy—the base of our prayer tradition—was composed in prehistoric times by the “Men of the Great Assembly,” and has survived, unchanged, since then. History tells a different story: one of constant evolution, contested meaning, and experimentation, from ancient times to just yesterday.

Join us for a hands-on experience of making and unmaking the text of Jewish prayer: what do we say when we pray, and when we say it, what do we mean? Explore the hidden motivations behind the nusach, or wording, or the prayerbook, and develop a new understanding—informed by a contemporary liberatory political approach—of how to read it, understand it, and live it.

This class will use literary, theological, and philosophical methods to unpack and analyze prayers, then offer a three-step method to deal with them in our own time. Drawing from the antizionist siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, class participants will be empowered to pray on a more personal level, and craft the Jewish prayerbook into the personal guide they need to confront the struggles of the moment.

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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Tuesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 pm ET/5 - 6:30 pm PT

September 2 · 9 · 16

Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to explore and prepare for the coming high holy days and a new year. Although most people know about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many people are not familiar or have practiced with the spirituality and treasures of creating an Elul spiritual practice. Each of us is on a unique journey as an embodied soul.

This three-session class is an opportunity to explore, develop, try out or renew an Elul practice especially designed for you - your own personal Elul tool kit. Together we will explore the spirituality of Elul and dive into a bunch of different practices both traditional and renewed ones - that can help you use this special time to open your heart and refresh your soul as you prepare for the new year and the biggest holiday/holy day season in the Jewish calendar.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Mondays - 3 Weeks
7-8:30 pm ET / 4-5:30 pm PT

September 1 · 8 · 15

In these times of rising fascism, Jewish people and organizations are trying to find the moral compasses that will lead us through. The prophetic voices of Tanakh, the strength of committed Jews, the storytelling power of midrash are all currently being used to hold our hope. But what of blatant political statements traditional to Judaism?

The Mussar movement is a Jewish ethical and educational movement filled with a variety of practices meant to focus moral conduct within spiritual paths. Many of these early Mussar leaders living at the heights of the Industrial Revolution's dehumanizing power spoke about worker's rights, mutual aid, and community power in ways that still resonate today. Learn more by registering for this participatory, 3-part mini-course!
—

This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Thursdays - 3 Weeks
2:00-3:30 pm ET/11 am-12:30 pm PT

September 4 · 11 · 18

Join Rena Yehuda Newman for an exploration into Jewish images and comix creation. In Jewish learning, we’re often familiar with text study – but what about text-and-image study? The themes of Elul are visually rich, striking, and introspective ahead of the High Holidays. Comix, spelled with an “x”, are part of a tradition of “co-mixing” text and image: a powerful and underrated tool in the spiritual toolbox for engaging with ritual and liturgy.

In this class, students will create their own comics using Elul-themed prompts, study and illustrate Elul related texts like Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) and high holiday liturgy, and learn how to apply the classical Pardes exegesis method to each others’ work, understanding the comix we make as meaningful midrash. Using techniques inspired by Lynda Barry, no drawing experience is necessary for this drawing-heavy Elul course.
—

This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Wednesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 ET / 5 - 6:30 pm PT

September 3 · 10 · 17

Some say that the Jewish liturgy—the base of our prayer tradition—was composed in prehistoric times by the “Men of the Great Assembly,” and has survived, unchanged, since then. History tells a different story: one of constant evolution, contested meaning, and experimentation, from ancient times to just yesterday.

Join us for a hands-on experience of making and unmaking the text of Jewish prayer: what do we say when we pray, and when we say it, what do we mean? Explore the hidden motivations behind the nusach, or wording, or the prayerbook, and develop a new understanding—informed by a contemporary liberatory political approach—of how to read it, understand it, and live it.

This class will use literary, theological, and philosophical methods to unpack and analyze prayers, then offer a three-step method to deal with them in our own time. Drawing from the antizionist siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, class participants will be empowered to pray on a more personal level, and craft the Jewish prayerbook into the personal guide they need to confront the struggles of the moment.

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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Tuesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 pm ET/5 - 6:30 pm PT

September 2 · 9 · 16

Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to explore and prepare for the coming high holy days and a new year. Although most people know about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many people are not familiar or have practiced with the spirituality and treasures of creating an Elul spiritual practice. Each of us is on a unique journey as an embodied soul.

This three-session class is an opportunity to explore, develop, try out or renew an Elul practice especially designed for you - your own personal Elul tool kit. Together we will explore the spirituality of Elul and dive into a bunch of different practices both traditional and renewed ones - that can help you use this special time to open your heart and refresh your soul as you prepare for the new year and the biggest holiday/holy day season in the Jewish calendar.
—

This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Mondays - 3 Weeks
7-8:30 pm ET / 4-5:30 pm PT

September 1 · 8 · 15

In these times of rising fascism, Jewish people and organizations are trying to find the moral compasses that will lead us through. The prophetic voices of Tanakh, the strength of committed Jews, the storytelling power of midrash are all currently being used to hold our hope. But what of blatant political statements traditional to Judaism?

The Mussar movement is a Jewish ethical and educational movement filled with a variety of practices meant to focus moral conduct within spiritual paths. Many of these early Mussar leaders living at the heights of the Industrial Revolution's dehumanizing power spoke about worker's rights, mutual aid, and community power in ways that still resonate today. Learn more by registering for this participatory, 3-part mini-course!
—

This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.