26 Nisan 5776 | May 4, 2016
Dear <<First Name>>,
Wow! Thank you for bringing yourself so fully to our village this past week in the Panamint Valley. Throughout our time together, we celebrated the beauty of our tradition and our community and encountered our collective and individual wellsprings.
Integration from this experience can take some time for many of us. We hope you allow yourself time to integrate your experience in the desert, whether it’s time reflecting on your journal or taking a few conscious minutes in your backyard or on a walk. We at Wilderness Torah are available to offer integration support on your return to daily life. Please reach out if you feel such support will benefit by sending an email to Zelig.
Evaluation
Your feedback is essential to our on going learning and upgrading how we build this village. Please take a moment to reflect on your desert experience and take the 5-10 minutes to share your feedback when we send you personalized survey email – coming soon!
 
Support Wilderness Torah
As you know, we work hard to create this festival experience and our costs far exceed proceeds from ticket sales, so financial offerings make a huge difference to Wilderness Torah. Thank you to everyone who pledged a donation on Sunday night. If you did not provide payment information, please complete your donation here.
It’s not too late to contribute! Please reflect on how Passover in Desert supported you and those around you, and consider whether you can give back financially to support the growth and sustainability of this powerful work. You can donate here.
Lost & Found
We will inventory all lost and found and send a list in a couple weeks with instructions about claiming anything you left behind. If you know you left something behind, please contact Flora to claim it.
 
Photos
Judyth Greenburgh and Tom Levy took the incredible photos in this email and you will find more on Facebook soon. Check them out, like them, label them, and tell us what you see. Please also “Like” us on Facebook. And, if you have additional photos, feel free to post them on our page.
Stay in Touch
Here is the Passover in the Desert contact list that includes all participants who wanted to be included. Please update your information as needed. Thank you for using this list ONLY for personal, one-to-one contact and NOT for general announcements. You may edit your information as you’d like.
Community Connections
Do you have a business or workshop you’d like others to know about? Please send us any offerings you would like the whole Passover community to know about by Friday, May 13, and we will include them in the final Passover in the Desert email the following week. Please limit your description to 45 words and a link or email address. For example…
Chef Baruch Schwadron caters events with kosher, carefully crafted cuisines. Hearth Nourishing Foods honors the diverse tastes of guests, while using organic, local, and seasonal produce, as well as healing herbs, creating a memorable experience. Baruch also helps us reconnect through healing, mentorship and earth-living skills: read more at Water of the Vine.
 
Stay Involved with Wilderness Torah
2016–2017 Youth Program Info Session, Enrolling Now!
B'hootz (grades K–5) and B'naiture (grades 6–7) programs create Jewish, nature-based education and community for children to form long-term relationships with the natural world, their peers, and mentors. Youth can join at any point along the journey of discovery. Program starts in October.
B'hootz is Jewish Sunday school in the woods, for children in grades K–5. B'naiture is a two-year, experiential program for girls and boys entering 6th grade that uses nature as a vehicle to explore the transition from childhood to adolescence. Find out more here.
Parents can learn more at the upcoming info session:
B’hootz & B’naiture: May 24, 6–7:30 pm
JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley, 1414 Walnut St., 94709
RSVP here
June 11-12, 2016, JCC East Bay, Berkeley, CA.
Cost: Free!
We count 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, and on the 50th day celebrate revelation! Join us for an all-night fire of singing, learning, and connection.
Wilderness Torah Training Institute
Learn WT’s Mentoring Methods • Deepen Your Earth-Based Jewish Practices
July 20–24, 2016 | Santa Cruz Mountains
(90 minutes south of San Francisco)
Inspired to deepen your personal connection to nature and earth-based Judaism? Join the inaugural Wilderness Torah Training Institute! For four days (July 20-24) immerse yourself in nature-connection, joyful earth-based Judaism, community-building with other leaders, and learn our transformational youth mentoring model. Learn more here!
Shalom u'vracha (Peace and blessings to all),
The WT Staff and Lev — Aya, Ben, Daniella, Flora, Nancy, Ophir, Rachel, Sam, Suzannah, and Zelig; and the whole Sukkot Lev (Danny, David, Halley, Michelle, Jonathan D, Jonathan M, Nathalie, Sol, Victor)
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