Greetings from Amsterdam, one of my ancestral hometowns, where I’m briefly visiting to attend screenings of Sabbath Queen at IDFA.
I’m excited to get back to NYC this weekend to kick off a week of screenings at IFC! Check out showtimes + exciting Q&A guests through the week – HERE.
Check out the video I posted about my Dutch ancestry and the important life lessons I learned from them to better face our complicated new normal: WATCH HERE.
Today, Inspired by this ancestral legacy – I invite you to join me for an online learning journey – ALEF/BET – starting in January 2025 – to reclaim our collective ancestral Jewish wisdom — reimagined for right now.
Jewish, Jewish-ish, or Jew-curious? Join me to explore the vital values that 3,000 years of Jewish wisdom have to offer us at this critical time of existential questions and challenges.
ALEF BET 2025 is our new & improved online learning course that invites you to explore big ideas, tough questions, core concepts, family secrets and best practices of Jewish life for the 21st Century. From sunrise to Sunset, birth to death, ancient history to current events, with our eyes on justice and peace – the ALEF/BET course includes 22 everybody-friendly and God-optional interactive learning sessions, with an overview of Jewish life from my unique, inclusive, critical, feminist and justice-driven perspective.
What are some of the tools of spiritual resilience and resistance we could all use? How can our past help us lead better and more helpful lives to become better ancestors?
I’m excited to find out, together.
Sign up for a single session, 7 session unit, or the full 22 session course + bonus sessions.
Lab/Shul partners? Check out your discount!
Want to learn more about this course and if it’s for you? Check out + sign up for the info session on 12/10.
Register for Information Session
I’m looking forward to this journey, in ancestral footsteps, paving new pathways to meaningful engagement with Jewish wisdom, soul work, and just love – to help us live our Jewish lives with more pride, purpose, knowledge and optimism.
See you soon – on-screen, online, and in person!
As the Sabbath Queen Says: Pause for Peace.
Wishing us all hope and healing,
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Co-Founder, Senior Clergy & Spiritual Leader
