Special guest Yiscah Smith will be at Shir Hadash for a riveting, timely, and heart-opening teaching to share with us during Parshat T'kuma, an incredibly relevant parshah in between Yom HaShoah and Yom HaAtazamut. Learn from Yiscah Smith's inspiring and gentle chasidic teachings - her wisdom and guidance helps us to connect with our inner selves and further our journey along our spiritual paths in life.

This evening's topic of "Arising: Building Faith from the Darkest Place" will pull insight from a teaching from March of 1940 about the spiritual energy of Amalek, around us and within us. The Piaseczner teaches how to "destroy" the Amalek energy within us through the spiritual awakening of faith and hope. Join us as we dive into this brilliant, inspiring and incredibly relevant text together with Yiscah Smith's guidance.

About Yiscah Smith: 

• Watch the video! Yiscah's TED Talk: "40 years in the wilderness; my journey to authentic living" 
• Yiscah's Journey: "Man, I Feel Like a Woman"

Yiscah Smith is a thought leader, spiritual activist and agent of change who addresses the spiritual practice of encountering the Divine spark within and beyond. She relies on Jewish spiritual teachings to inspire her students, acting as a compass, gently guiding them to their unique inner selves. She encourages, empowers and ennobles others to remain faithful to their individual spiritual paths.

Yiscah teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Applied Jewish Spirituality (AJS) and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS). She founded Conscious Community Nachlaot, an organization in Jerusalem that hosts Shabbat spiritual gatherings. Her forthcoming book Planting Seeds of the Divine: Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your
Spiritual Practice, jointly published by the University of Nebraska Press (UNP) and the Jewish Publication Society (JPS), will be released this coming in June.