“This place opened my mind to what healthy, vibrant, connected, spiritual Jewish community can look like. It made me hopeful about my own life, spiritually and otherwise.” – Elat Chayyim retreat participant
Elat Chayyim:
Raises up Jewish spiritual retreats as an essential building block towards a vibrant and engaged community
Engages body, heart, mind, and soul through transformative learning and
communal experiences
Functions as a research and development branch of the Jewish community, prioritizing creativity and innovation in the realm of Jewish thought and practice
Collaborates with creative Jewish leadership to produce unique transformative retreat experiences
Builds partnerships to create new synergies and constellations of otherwise divergent streams of Jewish community
Allows meaningful spiritual innovations to become tradition, while traditional practices become more relevant and meaningful to those unfamiliar or disengaged
Is committed to "Allstream" Judaism - creating an inclusive, pluralistic, post-denominational space in the context of a variety of unique retreats, each with its own particular flavor of Jewish practice
