Counting the Omer with Howard Rubin

Presented by RiversideTemple Beth El

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Howard will explain and guide participants through the mitzvah of "Counting the Omer," a practice that begins each year after the second night of Passover and continues for 49 days until Shavuot. The ancient Kabalistic approach to this practice points us toward focusing our attention each week on one of the 10 Qualities on the "Tree of Life,” and each day of the week on one aspect of that Quality. This will be an updated, actionable approach to this practice, which is rooted both in the ancient process and in modern transformational psychology. Each person will be encouraged to make each day really count as a step toward their own inner growth and personal experience of Freedom, by connecting with, and acting from, their inner Qualities of Love, Strength, Compassion, Power, Peace, Joy and

Freedom. Instructions and support resources will be provided to allow people to continue this Mitzvah practice for the entire Omer period, either alone or in community.

Howard Jay Rubin has, for the past 30 years, studied and taught from the well-springs of the Jewish spiritual tradition. For over a decade, Howard taught classes on Jewish Mysticism at a center for Inter-faith studies, which led the Jewish Journal to dub him: "The Rabbi of Agape." He has written over 40 feature magazine articles, and is the author of the upcoming book, This Day Counts!: A 7-week daily practice to awaken new-found Freedom.