[HANASHIR:2314] Hi + music at Elat Chayyim

[GurevitzR <GurevitzR...>]

Hi Chevra,

A quick line to announce my joy at being back online and tuned in to the hava
nashira list again.  New email is GurevitzR (at) aol(dot)com, until September 
99.

So, I'm working for the Shalom Center and as an intern at Elat Chayyim, a
Jewish retreat center 2 hours away from NYC.  I promise this is the only time
I'll advertise, but below is the outline schedule for this year - this is an
amazing place that I recommend people to try out.  It is all great, but for
music, I particularly recommend the songwriting and harmony course with Linda
Hirschhorn and Fran Avni, or anything involving Rabbi Shefa Gold (specialist
in using chant).  Also a course with Dovid Zeller this year.  There is other
music stuff too - yiddish song, etc.  Details for further info.  below.

Shabbat Shalom,
Rachel

Dear Chevra,

Elat Chayyim is a  Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center in the Catskill Mountains,
NY (2 hours North of NYC). It has truly delicious  -- amazing!! -- Kosher,
vegetarian food, a great children's program, hiking trails, woods, meadows,
tennis courts, hot tub, and swimming pool, as well as inspiring classes,
holiday retreats, workshops, davvening,  meditation, and yoga practices. 

For additional information or to register,  call 1-800-398-2630, fax
914-626-2037 or write via E-mail at elatchayyi (at) aol(dot)com
99 Mill Hook Road, Accord, NY 12404 

AFTER FEBRUARY 15, THERE WILL BE A NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS:
generalinfo (at) elatchayyim(dot)org

SPRING RETREATS
3/12-14  Basherte Retreat for Singles/Spring -  Efraim Eisen and Rosalie
Harris-Eisen
3/21   Women's Seder - Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell
3/26-28  Contemplative Shabbat - Rabbi David and Shoshana Cooper
3/31-4/4  Passover - Rabbis Shefa Gold, Jeff Roth, Arthur Waskow; and Phyllis
Berman
4/9-11  Jewish Meditation Conference in New York City
4/18-21 East Coast Beginning  Meditation Retreat for Rabbis
4/23-25  Contemplative Shabbat - Sylvia Boorstein and Rabbi Jeff Roth
4/25-30  Mindfulness Leadership Training #2
5/2-6   Advanced Meditation Retreat for Rabbis
5/16-20  Work Week 
5/20-23  Shavuot Retreat - Leonard Angel, Phyllis Berman, and Rabbis Arthur
Waskow and Jeff Roth
5/28-31  Basherte Retreat for Singles/Memorial Day - Efraim Eisen and Rosalie
Harris-Eisen
6/11-20  Nine-Day Meditation Retreat - Rabbi David and Shoshana Cooper


SUMMER RETREATS:
JUNE 28-JULY 4      All-Day Intensives
Fran Avni & Cantor Linda Hirschhorn - Tapping Your Inner and Outer Voice: A
Singing and Songwriting Workshop
Tamara Cohen & Rabbi Arthur Waskow - Seasons of Tikkun Olam: Taking Festivals
and Life-Cycle Celebrations into Public Space
Andrea Cohen-Kiener - Building Community:  The Power and Potential of Prayer
Rodger Kamenetz - Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
Jo Milgrom - A  Troubling Myth: Our Responses to the Binding of Isaac
Tova Weitzman - Hebrew Immersion Ulpan

JULY 5-11  HEALING WEEK:  MORNING CLASSES
Anne Brener - Doing Kaddish: Rituals for Healing at Times of Loss & Transition
Neilah Carlebach - Why Go Left When You Know What's Right
Rabbi Shefa Gold - The Art of Chant as a Healing Modality
Mark Rosen - Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Mystical Strategies for Healing
Conflict
Joel Ziff - Embodied Spirituality: Hands-On Healing

JULY 5-11  HEALING WEEK: AFTERNOON CLASSES
Rabbi Judith Abrams - Making the Journey Through Illness a Journey through
Heaven
Rabbi Shaya Isenberg & Bahira Sugarman - The Kabbalah of Relationships:
Spiritual Practices to Evolve and Inspire Our Relationships
Leon Olenick - Bikkor Cholim: The Practice of Visiting the Sick
Judith Ruskay Rabinor - Sacred Nourishment: Transforming Our Inner Hungers
Rabbi Shohama Weiner - Jewish Meditation and Healing Practices
Rabbi David Zaslow - Healing the Gap Between Us and God

JULY 12-18 Morning Classes
Rabbi Leila Berner - Hearing the Silence: Women's Voices in Torah, Text &
Tradition
Rabbi Nancy Flam - You Shall Love Your God... (MINI CLASS)
Maurice Friedman - A Dialogue with Buber's Hasidic Tales
Reuven Modek - Otiyot Khayyot: Letters that Live, Letters that Move
Peter Pitzele - Bibliodrama: Becoming the White Fire

July 12-18   Afternoon Classes
Cherie Brown - Healing the Wounds of Jewish Internalized Oppression
Rabbi Mordechai Gafni - Eros: the Agony and the Ecstasy
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb - Torat Hesed: The Torah of Compassion
Arthur Kurzweil - Sex, Death, Suffering and Money: What Does the Talmud Say?
Susan Leviton -  Yiddish Songs to Heal the World

July 19-25 CONTEMPLATIVE All-Day Intensives
Nan Fink Gefen, Rabbis Jonathan Omer-Man and Jeff Roth - Exploring God
Consciousness
Rabbi David Zeller - The Soul of Jewish Meditation
Ammi Kohn & M'eyshah Albert - From the Body, I See God: A Yoga and Jewish
Meditation Intensive

July 26-August 1    ARTS WEEK & TEEN CAMP: Morning Classes
David Friedman - From Creative Kabbalah to Prophecy
Rabbi Shefa Gold - The Path of Ecstasy
Cantor Richard Kaplan - Tuning the Soul: Contemplative Niggun, Eco-Lament,
Ecstatic Mizrachi Chant

July 26-August 1 ARTS WEEK AND TEEN CAMP:  Afternoon Classes
Nancy Aronie - Writing from the Heart: Tapping the Power of Your Inner Voice 
Cantor Robert Esformes - Raise Your Voice in Jewish Song
Latifa Kropf - Jewish Sacred Dance: The Body as a Vehicle for Prayer
Gabriel Meyer - Summer Moons: A Time of Awakening
Carol Fox Prescott - Interactive Meditation: Continuity Practice at the Speed
of Life
Rabbi Shawn Zevit - Elohut:  A "God"shop--Creativity, Spirituality and the
Quest for the Divine

AUGUST 2-8  ADVANCED STUDY WEEK: Morning Classes
Rabbi Leah Novick - Messengers of the Shekhinah: Hasidic Women Saints,
Teachers and Rebbes
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - Meditation, Tradition, and Practice

August 2-8 ADVANCED STUDY WEEK:  Afternoon Classes
Barbara Breitman & Rabbi Burt Jacobson - Avodah P'nimit: The Evolving Art of
Jewish Spiritual Direction
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone - Toward Elul: Beginning to Begin Anew
Rabbi Shaya Isenberg-  A Plural Unity: Sharing Spiritual Wisdoms
Cantor Jack Kessler - Davennen a la Mode (MINI CLASS)
Rabbi Miles Krassen - The Everlasting Stream: Kabbalah in Hasidic Sources
Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein - Rav Kook's Kabbalah of Torah

August 9-15 Morning Classes
Eve Ilsen & Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - Treasures of Practice from the
Siddur
Rabbi Geela Rayzl Raphael - Rituals: Gateways to the Infinite

August 9-15 Afternoon Classes
Barbara Breitman & Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg -  Moments of Deepening on the
Spiritual Journey
Rabbi Marcia Prager - The Path of Blessing
Simcha Raphael - Life, Death & the World Beyond
Rabbi Daniel & Hanna Tiferet Siegel - Kehilla Kedosha: Creating Spiritual
Community
Rabbi Arthur Waskow - Shaping a New Jewish Sexual Ethics

FALL AND WINTER RETREATS:
8/29-9/2  Women's Meditation Retreat - Shoshana Cooper & 
   Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
9/3-6 Basherte Workshop for Singles/Labor Day - Efraim Eisen and Rosalie
Harris-Eisen
9/10-12  Rosh Hashanah - Phyllis Berman and Rabbis Jeff Roth and Arthur Waskow
9/13-17  Days of Awe Contemplative - Myriam Levy and Rabbi Jeff Roth
9/17-20 Yom Kippur - Phyllis Berman and Rabbis Jeff Roth and Arthur Waskow
10/1-3 Simchat Torah - Phyllis Berman and Rabbis Jeff Roth and Arthur Waskow
10/8-10  Contemplative Shabbat - Sylvia Boorstein and Rabbi Jeff Roth
10/10-15  Mindfulness Leadership Training #3
11/5-7  Talmud and Texts Weekend - Arthur Kurzweil, and Rabbis Miles Krassen &
Marcia Prager 
11/7-10   West Coast Beginning Meditation Retreat for Rabbis
11/12-14  8th Annual Jewish Men's Retreat
11/25-28  Basherte Workshop for Singles/Thanksgiving - Efraim Eisen and
Rosalie Harris-Eisen
12/3-5  Meditating on the Lights: A Chanukah Retreat - Rabbi Shefa Gold
12/17-26  Nine-Day Meditation Retreat - Rabbi David and Shoshana Cooper
12/30-1/2 The Millenium: A Joyful Service Retreat - Phyllis Berman and Rabbis
Jeff Roth and Arthur Waskow

The Next Century:   2000
1/21-23 Contemplative Weekend
2/18-20 Contemplative Weekend
3/17-19 Contemplative Weekend
5/7-10 East Coast Beginning Meditation Retreat for Rabbis
5/14-19 Mindfulness Leadership Training #4
5/21-25 Rabbi Advanced Meditation Retreat
11/5-8  West Coast Beginning Meditation Retreat for Rabbis 

For additional information or to register, contact us at:
PHONE  800-398-2630, 914-626-0157
FAX      914-626-2037
MAIL    99 Mill Hook Rd., Accord, NY 12404
WEB     www.elatchayyim.org
E-MAIL generalinfo (at) elatchayyim(dot)org
            registration (at) elatchayyim(dot)org
            mailinglist (at) elatchayyim(dot)org
            giftshop (at) elatchayyim(dot)org

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