The Shabbat Effect
Webinar with Alan Morinis
5/17 @ 1 PM EST
Join us for a special webinar with Alan Morinis, the founder of the Mussar Institute and the author of The Shabbat Effect! You will learn how incorporating Mussar practices into a day of rest can fully transform your relationship to yourself.
The Shabbat Effect – Va’ad Course
NEW Course
6/2 – 8/11 – Choose Your Session
Join this journey into Mussar through The Shabbat Effect, based on the teachings of Alan Morinis and co-created with Julie Dean. Through va’ad learning, text study, discussion, and practice, each session explores a specific middah and how it can be cultivated through Shabbat experience. All are welcome to this warm, supportive space for growth, connection, and meaningful change.
Five Steps to a Life of Meaning
Intro to Mussar
6/28 – 7/26
This introduction to Mussar guides you through ancient Jewish wisdom for personal growth and a more meaningful life. Through five meaningful and interactive sessions, you will learn how to develop patience, clarity and balance in ways that will transform your relationships and transform yourself.
Aging Soulfully With Mussar
Intermediate Course
7/14 – 10/20
This new course is designed to help mature Mussar practitioners apply a select number of highly relevant middot to the changes in their later lives. Using Alan Morinis’s book, Everyday Holiness, as the primary source text, supplemented by additional readings from Jewish, scientific, and journalistic sources, participants will be led to apply eight middot as they surface in the challenges faced by aging and the transitions of life. The goal for the course is to enable people to accept the transition of aging with grace and to offer practices for feeling valued, despite the limitations that aging often presents.
2027 Mussar In-Person Retreat
5/16 – 5/19/2027
AJU Brandeis Bardin Campus, AJU, Simi Valley, CA
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