Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg's new book God Loves the Stranger uses stories, blessings, poetry, divine teachings, and meditation exercises to carves a clear pathway that enables us to learn how to love one another and create just societies.

In this workshop based on the book, Sheila will use meditation and writing to help participants focus on encounters with the strangers we meet, inside or outside own hearts and minds and beings. The ultimate goal of the book and workshop is on how to bring the roots of love and gratitude into our everyday lives.

The workshop is $25 and includes a signed copy of God Loves the Stranger. At the end of the workshop participants will be invited to share their work (if they want), and Sheila will do a reading from the book.

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Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years. She has also worked in the fields of Jewish community relations, Jewish education and Hillel. She has published widely on such topics as feminism, spiritual direction, parenting, social justice and mindfulness from a Jewish perspective and has contributed commentaries to Kol HaNeshama, the Reconstructionist prayer book. Rabbi Weinberg has taught mindfulness meditation and yoga to rabbis, Jewish professionals and lay people in the context of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She serves as a spiritual director to a variety of Jewish clergy including students and faculty at HUC-JIR in New York. She is creator and co-leader of the Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Program. She is married to Maynard Seider and they have three married children and six grandchildren.

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

Big Blue Marble Bookstore is in Mt. Airy Village, near the intersection of Greene Street and Carpenter Lane. There is plenty of free parking on the street. The store is a few blocks walk from the Upsal or Carpenter Lane stations of the Chestnut Hill West Regional Rail line, and the H bus stops one block from the store at Carpenter and McCallum.

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Please email Elliott batTzedek at outreach@bigbluemarblebooks.com

Is my registration/ticket transferrable?

If you contact the instructor in advance, your registration may be transferred to another person

What is the refund policy?

If we have to cancel a workshop due to weather or other issues, we will offer you the choice of a refund or of moving your registration to a different workshop, We do not offer refunds if you cancel, but your registration may be transferred to any other class in the series. Please email outreach@bigbluemarblebooks.com.