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Join Taya Mâ Shere for an exploration in welcoming ancestral connections as a source of blessing and support. In this session, we’ll consider ways in which honoring ancestors can be an important and empowering aspect of personal and communal healing and consider ways ancestor honoring is present within Jewish traditions. This session will be a combination of teaching, discussion and an optional short experiential exercise. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of ways of relating with ancestors.

Taya Mâ Shere is co-founder and Rav Kohenet of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, author of The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership and Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook. Taya Mâ hosts the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast and offers online courses through the Kohenet Virtual Temple, including Embodied Presence, Jewish Ancestral Healing, Sex and the Sephirot and Practice Makes Imperfect. She is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Organic Multireligious Ritual at Starr King School for the Ministry and on faculty at the Chaplaincy Institute. Taya Mâ is the creator of the Liberate Your Seder Haggadeck, and co-creator of The Omer Oracle and Divining Pleasure: an Oracle for SephErotic Liberation. Taya Mâ’s Hebrew Goddess chant albums — This Bliss, Wild Earth Shebrew, Halleluyah All Night and Torah Tantrika — have been heralded as “cutting-edge mystic medicine music.” Her newest album, Makam Shekhina is pulsing Hebrew-Arabic prayer in cahoots with her beloved collaborator Shaykh Ibrahim Baba z’’l, and their spiritual community. www.taya.ma | @tayatransforms

About Ritualwell
Ritualwell is the most extensive online resource that curates original Jewish rituals for Jews and fellow seekers. We publish rituals, ceremonies, prayers and poems to mark sacred moments in Jewish life. Through creating and sharing rituals, hosting Ritualwell Immersions (online learning experiences), curating an online Judaica shop and hosting Rabbi Connect, Ritualwell fosters a supportive environment for Jewish creativity, spiritual growth and discovery. Learn more at www.ritualwell.org.

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