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Shefa supports and educates Jewish explorers with spiritually-rooted resources and immersive experiences.

05/21/2026

Chodesh Sivan Tov!

Shavuot is the moment we stood together at Sinai trembling, opened ready to receive. Last night, we primed the hear with Kohenet ‘s virtual song ceremony: Open to Receive

Today, we offer you this playlist as an opportunity to prepare the body. The Ba’al Shem Tov taught that joy is a pathway to dvekut, to cleaving to the divine. He saw the ecstatic movement of simple Jews as holy prayer. As the body’s uninhibited surrender a form of worship no less sacred than Torah study.

This ~45 minute soundtrack was curated to follow the flow of a a traditional ecstatic dance experience, infused with the energy of Shavuot— to arrive, open as you ascend, receive at the peak, descend, gather as you land, and return. We invite you to give yourself to this experience, to become simple and watch what happens.

Listen at the link in bio. Chodesh tov and Chag Sameach💜

05/20/2026

Tonight! Enjoy this taste of ‘s medicinal music offered tonight at Ready to Receive: a Virtual Song Ceremony.

📅Tonight! Wednesday, May 20th
🕠 5:30pm PT | 8:30pm ET
💛 By Donation
Link in bio to register🌿

05/13/2026

Our ancestral story teaches that even when preparing for a journey into the unknown, we are called to make space for the light to get in. Facing flood and upheaval, Noah builds an ark—a protected vessel for what matters most—and into it he places a tzohar, an opening, to receive the sun’s illumination. That wisdom lives in us still.

Many of us are moving through the world with full hearts and busy lives, hungry for something we can’t quite name—deeper connection, renewed purpose, real time to remember who we are beneath the noise. Our community has asked for the time and space to do this work, together, and Tzohar is our response.

Tzohar is Shefa’s three-night legal 🍄 retreat in Aspen, Colorado, offered across two dates in 2026. This offering is for Jews ready to build that opening: to be held in community, to journey inward, and to emerge with more spaciousness than they arrived with.

Applications for our first Tzohar Colorado retreats are now open. We expect spots to fill quickly, so apply and secure your space in the circle. Read about the arc of the experience and start your application at the link in our bio🫶🏽

05/07/2026

We are so honored to welcome back for Ready to Receive, a virtual song ceremony this later month.

Elana is a musician, songwriter, community prayer-leader, and ordained Kohenet whose songleading has been described by Rabbi Jill Hammer as “Magnificent, Holy, Stunning” and by Grammy-winning vocalist Bobby McFerrin as “Cosmic.” Known for her ritual leadership and prayer priestessing in Jewish and Song Circle communities worldwide, Elana carries music as medicine.

We invite you soften, be held in song, and receive in this intimate, virtual container.

📅 Wednesday, May 20th
🕠 5:30pm PT | 8:30pm ET
💛 By Donation
Link in bio to register🌿

04/30/2026

It’s always a gift when we get to learn from our dear friend and teacher Rabbi Ami Silver. Join us for his four part online series Derech: Teachings and Practices for Navigating the Inner Journey beginning Monday May 4th.✨

This class is relevant for beginners and experienced journeyers alike. More info at the link in our bio.

More on Ami ⤵️

Ami Silver is a rabbi and psychotherapist based in Jerusalem. A longtime student of contemplative, embodied Jewish practice, he teaches Jewish wisdom and practice as a path of direct experience and spiritual connection, independently and in collaboration with various organizations. Alongside his rabbinic work, Ami maintains a private therapy practice where he supports people through mindfulness-based, somatic and experiential therapy approaches. He has been at the forefront of psychedelic-assisted therapeutic work in Israel, working as part of the clinical team at treatment centers and on clinical research trials. A beloved contributor to Shefa, Ami authored “Return to One: A Shefa High Holiday Companion,” as well as our psychedelically-inspired Passover and Chanukah readers. Ami’s teachings also inspired Shefa’s 2026 Trip Siddur.

04/28/2026

“The Jewish spiritual tradition has known for centuries that the descent is the ascent”

Join rabbi and psychotherapist Ami Silver for a four-part course offering ancient tools for navigating the contemporary landscape of psychedelic and non-ordinary states.

Each session will introduce a unique spiritual ‘technology’, offering both teachings and opportunities to practice in real time. Together, the cohort will explore the traditional practices of drawing support from ancestors, masters, and the natural world, revelation through embodiment, anchoring through Divine Names, and orienting through the breath.

By making these traditions accessible, embodied, and directly applicable to the modern psychedelic experience, students will be empowered to stay present through unfolding terrains, receive what arises as teaching, find anchoring in movements of dissolution and rebirth.

Session time: 8pm Israel / 1pm EST / 10am Pacific
Monday May 4, May 11, May 18 and May 26
All sessions are 90 minutes and will be recorded for course participants

For more information and registration visit:
https://www.shefaflow.org/programs/p/derech-teachings-and-practices-for-navigating-the-inner-journey

02/26/2026

Rabbi Zac is featured on the latest episode of Chutzpod, where he joined hosts Rabbi Shira and Hanna to discuss integrating psyc * edelic experiences into the Jewish tradition of Purim. Listen at he link below.

02/25/2026

Early bird pricing ends *tonight* for our four-part series with ! This will be an opportunity to learn, sing, and create. No experience needed! More info in the link below 🩵

02/24/2026

Rabbi Zac and Josh Lipson share some of the findings from Jewish Journeys—our soon-to-be-released research study in partnership with Emory and Common Era—on this episode of Judaism Unbound. We're so grateful to Josh at Emory for his excellent overview of the data we’re able to share at this stage—and for the work still to come. 💙 Listen at the link below.

02/23/2026

We're looking forward to learning online with ! In Songs for the Journey: Jewish Singing for Ceremony & Integration, we'll explore Jewish song as spiritual infrastructure for expanded states. Together we will learn how to use traditional melodies and niggunim as tools for grounding, opening, integrating, and moving forward. Early bird pricing is available through this Thursday!

Sign up + learn more at the link below.

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