Na’aleh is a collective of Jewish mindfulness practitioners and leaders who are building a Jewish mindfulness community in Toronto and surrounding areas.

Our team is excited to launch our first series—an arc of four programs offered throughout this year, 5785 (2024-2025), each delving into mindfulness practices and Jewish spiritual wisdom to prepare for an upcoming Jewish holiday.

• Nashuva/Let's Return • Sunday, September 22 • 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  (at Beth Tzedec) 
• Ohr/Light • Thursday, December 19 • 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.(at Miles Nadal JCC) 
• Entering/Kenisa • Sunday, March 2 • 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.(at Beth Tzedec) 
• Har/Mountain • Thursday, May 29 • 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.(at Miles Nadal JCC) 

To register for the Na'aleh programs, please click HERE.

Na’aleh is led in partnership between the following individuals and the organizations they serve:

• Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin (Director of the Beth Tzedec Centre for Spiritual Well-Being);
  
• Aviva Chernick (Spiritual Leader and Artist-in-Residence at Beth Tzedec Congregation and Founder of neySHEV Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Community);
  
• Rabbi Miriam Margles (Senior Faculty member at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality);
  
• Aaron Rotenberg (Spiritual Leader at the Annex Shul); and
  
• Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appel (Beth David Congregation and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality). 

Na'aleh is a partnership between—

The Beth Tzedec Centre for Spiritual Well-Being, Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Miles Nadal JCC, Annex Shul, neySHEV and Beth David Synagogue