While we are still deep in our shmita year, we—like all of you—are thinking about Passover, just around the corner. Although we can’t be together again this year, feel free to use and adapt our Haggadah for 5781 for your own seders. Our Pesach SoundCloud supplement for the melodies has a few new additions to …
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Volunteer to help with Sacred Spaces!
Nishmat Shoom Sacred Spaces for the Days of Awe are outdoor sites decorated by local artists and set up and maintained by the Nishmat Shoom community. This year, we are planning four of these spaces. Each one is based around one of four themes: KADDISH- grief/mourning ( Greenfield)T’SHUVAH-collective transformation/transformative justice (Easthampton)TZEDAKAH- reparations/redistribution/collective care (Northampton)T’FILAH- cultivating …
5782 Days of Awe Update
The month of Elul has begun and so we begin our work of teshuva, or return. We look back on this past year and take stock as we return to ourselves, to Source, and Spirit. A year ago, we pushed through the challenges of isolation and grief to offer digital experiences for Days of Awe …
Register to receive a Ritual Care Package!
If you haven’t pre-registered for a Nishmat Shoom ritual care package, now’s your chance to sign up! We are now opening registration for anyone who didn’t pre-register, while supplies last. Quantities are limited, though, and registration will close on August 8, so if you’d like to receive a care package, be sure to sign up soon! If you pre-registered, you do not need to fill out …
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Invite us to your Passover celebration!
We’d love to know how you are celebrating Passover this year. Tag us on social media with @nishmatshoom and #nishmatshoom so all of our community can share and witness experiences of preparing for, observing, and reflecting on Passover 5781! You can also send us images to share at nishmatshoom@gmail.com. And be sure to check out posts …
Chag Pesach Sameach—and happy spring!
We thought it was time for an update and a check-in with our community. How has this year sat for you? What learnings and new edges have you experienced since we last gathered during the Days of Awe? We at Nishmat have been sitting with our own individual and collective learnings about our orientation to …
Yizkor materials
We’re excited to share a new offering, a pre-recorded Yizkor service to accompany you this Yom Kippur, in addition to our text Yizkor Ritual Guide. The 26 minute recording, an adaptation of Nishmat Shoom’s Yizkor service from 5780, created by Jo Kent Katz, Margot Seigle, and EE Miller with vocal accompaniment by Sol Weiss …
Jews say Black Lives Matter in NYT
Nishmat Shoom is proud to be one of 600 multiracial Jewish communities signed on to this letter in the NYT today stating unequivocally: Black Lives Matter. We are proud to support the The Movement for Black Lives. Read the full text of the letter