RUACH SHALOM

"Peace begins with me” - Thich Naht Hahn

Mondays March 21 - May 30, 2022

6:30pm Pacific Time

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The Aquarian Minyan’s Ruach Shalom Project invites you to participate in a journey of personal refinement to become ever more effective instruments for promoting peace, healing, and wholeness in our lives, our communities, and in the world. We will gather each Monday at 6:30pm Pacific time, beginning March 21, embarking on this journey together over 13 weeks.
 
Ruach Shalom is the spirit of peacefulness which is both the origin and continued actualization of shalom/shalem/wholeness.  It is by cultivating Ruach Shalom in our lives that we become transformed ourselves, thus becoming the agents of transformation that the world urgently needs.

The Ruach Shalom gatherings will be facilitated by Baal Bracha “Old Root” Barry Barkan, Miriam Stampfer, Rabbi Jonathan Seidel, and Lorelai Kude. Our weekly meetings are open to those who aspire to create paths of spiritual awareness for a universal Jewish Renewal practice so we can grow more whole and evolve beyond our current crises – beginning with ourselves, leading to our communities, and ultimately to pressing societal issues such as climate change, xenophobia and hardening of our differences - and lighten our way to Tikkun Olam. 

In our Gatherings, the Ruach Shalom Project will seek to manifest what Reb Zalman z”l called “The Fourth Turning of Hasidism” .  Contemporary meaning will be ascribed to the three Foundational Mastery Paths of Judaism to bring us into alignment with Ruach Shalom, Spirit of Wholeness and Peace:

The Path of Tefila, Opening to Spirit
The Path of Teshuva, Refining Ourselves
The Path of Tzedaka, Transformative Action

We welcome everyone open to personal and communal transformation to join these gatherings!