The Four Worlds of Kabbalah
A Mindfulness-Based Introduction for Young AdultsMarch 11 – April 8, 2025
Five Live Online Sessions: Tuesdays, 8:00-9:15 PM ET
March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8
Are you a young person in your 20s or 30s who is…
- Curious how Jewish spirituality and mindfulness might benefit you?
- Seeking a practical and accessible introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism?
- Interested in exploring meditation by adding a Jewish dimension to your practice?
- Wondering what’s Jewish about mindfulness?
The Four Worlds of Kabbalah: A Mindfulness-Based Introduction for Young Adults is an accessible and practical introduction to mindful Jewish living grounded in Jewish mysticism’s model of the “four worlds”—finding holiness in our bodies, emotions, thoughts, and spirit. Together, we’ll awaken to our essential divinity and help achieve a greater sense of wholeness.
Whether you are new to mindfulness or are a longtime spiritual seeker, this online course taught by IJS Core Faculty Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife and head of our young adult programming, Rebecca Schisler, will explore a uniquely Jewish approach to meditation and mysticism that can support you in living more holistically, with greater awareness, resilience, and authenticity.
Through online materials and weekly live practice sessions, be part of a supportive community of practice, learning habits of body, heart, mind, and spirit to foster personal and collective well-being and align with your deepest, most authentic self.
Learning about the Four Worlds of Kabbalah will support you in this process by helping you to:
- Become more attuned and awake to your inner life in its richness and subtlety
- Grow in awareness of your body, emotions, thoughts and spirit as gateways to spiritual living
- Live with greater intentionality, awareness, and presence
- Experience yourself as an innately divine being held in the embrace of unconditional divine love
- Develop habits of heart, mind, and body that support your capacity to practice self-care, respond wisely and compassionately to life’s challenges, and thrive
- Practice essential skills for cultivating and developing a personal Jewish spiritual practice grounded in mindfulness
You will explore all of this within a safe and supportive community of fellow young adults looking for greater meaning in their lives.
Note: If you have already taken Awaken: Essential Jewish Mindfulness with Young Adults, this course will cover the same material with some adaptations and additions.
Testimonials
“While I grew up connecting deeply to my Judaism in different ways, the invitations I received into the spiritual layers of it were not welcoming to me. This series has been a deep and rich invitation into some of the wisdom and spiritual technology that Judaism is built on and I am so grateful to you for making this space.“
– Zoey, The Four Worlds of Kabbalah Participant
– Meital, The Four Worlds of Kabbalah Participant
Register by March 10
IJS is pleased to offer this course at three tuition levels.
We encourage you to pay at the highest level you can, which will enable more students to participate.
Abundance Level
$149
Basic Level
$99
Reduced Level
$49
Meet Your Instructors
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. She serves as Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh, Program Director for Beloved Garden, inaugural Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and also enjoys working with the Jewish Learning Collaborative. Additionally, she delights in serving as a shlichat tzibbur, life spiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, teacher, facilitator, liturgist and songstress. Her work in these realms is informed by her lived experience as a queer, bi-racial, 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. After many years of traveling and living in Australia, in 2018, she and her beloved returned home to Osage and Haudenosaunee land, also called Pittsburgh, PA.
Rebecca Schisler
Rebecca is Core Faculty at IJS, a meditation teacher, artist, and Jewish educator. A devoted contemplative practitioner, she has led groups and taught classes and retreats with Or HaLev, Awakened Heart Project, Orot, Wilderness Torah, Pardes, and Stanford School of Medicine. She was previously the Director of Student Health & Well-being at Stanford University’s Hillel, and co-authored the Mahloket Matters Schools Curriculum with the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. A student rabbi at ALEPH, Rebecca is passionate about integrating ancestral wisdom traditions with innovative approaches to personal and collective healing and liberation. She teaches Jewish spirituality as an embodied, holistic, and accessible path, with relevant and timely wisdom for all.