Mondays, May 4, 11, & 18, 2026
4:30pm - 6:00 pm PT / 7:30 pm - 9:00pm ET
Virtual
Join The Shalom Center, Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife and Jewish Studio Project for a three-part Shavuot series on revelation, dreams, and creative futures.
We are living in the Jewish diaspora, in a world that’s being created in every moment, and we are its co-creators. As Divine agents of creation and as living links between our ancestors and our distant descendents, we are the ones who will set the blueprint for the future. So what will we dream? And what will we create?
Through the Jewish Studio Process - a unique methodology that builds creative capacity by combining art therapy practices with a reimagined approach to Jewish learning - this series invites participants to learn, imagine, play, dream, create, and connect. By bringing text study and art making together in a facilitated way, we cultivate curiosity, openness, and resilience. No artistic experience or special materials needed; just openness and curiosity!
May 4 - Receiving and Renewing Timeless Revelation - We will explore what it means to experience time as spiralinear, returning anew to each season. How we might we open ourselves to receive the wisdom that wants to be revealed with this next arrival? And how do we hold the tension of timeless revelation with what wants to come through for this specific moment?
May 11 - Embodying our Ancestors’ Dreams - If one source of wisdom comes through dreams - our own and the dreams of those who came before us - what do we do with the dreams we receive? How do we make those dreams manifest? And how do we hold the balance between the dreams that others have for us and those which originate with us?
May 18 - New Futures Revealed on the Mountain - As we approach Shavuot, we open to the revelation that wants to come to and through us, inviting the creative process to help us receive, sense-make, and root our intentions toward what we might do with this newfound wisdom, insight, and truth.
In this season of preparing to receive revelation, why not begin peeling back the layers to uncover what wants to be revealed to and through you?
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This is a three-part series taught by Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife.
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife (she/they) sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. She serves as Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh and Core Faculty Member with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and also enjoys working with Beloved, The Jewish Studio Project, Kirva, the Avodah Institute for Social Change, and the Jewish Learning Collaborative, among other national Jewish organisations. Keshira is also a member of The Shalom Center’s Cohort א.
Additionally, she delights in serving as a shlichat tzibbur, life spiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, consultant, facilitator, teacher, liturgist and songstress. Her work in these realms is informed by her lived experience as a queer, bi-racial, child-free Jewish person, her belief that Book, Body, and Earth are equal sources of wisdom, the quandaries she has encountered as a scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School, and her deep commitment to a thriving, liberatory Jewish future.
Keshira received Kohenet smicha in 2017 and earned her BS (2000) and MS (2001) at Carnegie Mellon University. Though both the lands of the Osage & Haudenosaunee people (aka Pittsburgh, PA) and the Gadigal people (Sydney, AUS) feel like home, Keshira and her beloved have been in an extended period of travel since January 2023. www.keshirahalev.com
One-time registration includes Zoom links for all three class sessions in the series. All sessions will be recorded and registrants will receive links to all three recordings. Please contact events@theshalomcenter.org if finances are a barrier to attend. By registering for this program, you agree to receive email communication from The Shalom Center and Jewish Studio Project.