Memory, Mourning, Honor, and Hope
Journeying Through Yom HaZikaron Toward Yom Ha’atzmaut
With Rachel Kann, Rabbanit Dalia Davis, and Rabbanit Aliza Sperling
In Israel, they are called “The Yamim” – “The Days”.
Yom HaShoah… Yom HaZikaron… Yom Ha’azmaut.
Days of memory. Of mourning. Of honoring loss and sacrifice. Days of hope.
These “yamim” are filled with big emotions – vacillating from collective grief, to personal memory and loss, to embracing hope, to communal pride and celebration. This year, the emotions run deep. And we wanted to explore the feelings these days are bringing up for us – and to connect more personally to how our sisters and brothers in Israel experience these days.
Through music, stories, poetry, and writing, we will carve out space for the emotions of these days.
These are days to pause – to lean back into memories of those we lost, to honor them, to honor their loved ones, and to lean into the hope we cling to together, as a people.
We mourn and we hope. All in the same moment. As impossible as that sounds. We find a way to hold it all at once. Our memories and our future. Our grief and our joy.
We are incredibly grateful to be joined by Rachel Kann – world-renowned poet, teacher, author, spiritualist – who will guide us through an exploration of our emotions around these days through one of her spectacular writing workshops. Bring paper, pen. Come even if you’re “not a writer.” This is an experience like you haven’t seen before.
Join us on this journey through Yom HaZikaron towards Yom Ha’atzmaut. Leaning in to what this memorial day and independence day mean to each of us.
Come when you can, stay till you can’t. but, come. let’s be together.
Join us Monday 4/28 @ 8:00-9:30pm ET
Please invite someone you think might want to be with us, too.
This gathering is directed by Rabbanit Dalia Davis and made possible in part by support of the Covenant Foundation, the Aviv Foundation, and inspired by each one of us.
This gathering is made possible by these generous sponsors:
This gathering welcomes women* 12+ and learners of all backgrounds.
SVIVAH is dependent on the generosity of those who choose to invest in a powerful community of women. As always, cost should never be a barrier to anything SVIVAH, but if you can, please help us show respect to our speakers/facilitators for their time and expertise.
If you would like to sponsor this gathering in honor or in memory of someone special, email us here.
Questions about ZOOM or about this gathering? Email connect@svivah.org
*SVIVAH defines "Jewish woman" as anyone wishing to be included in a circle of Jewish women. If you want to be here, we want you to be here.