This summer, be a part of a unique teaching tour that celebrates the opening of the Jerusalem Center for Transformative Torah. The Center offers Jewish frameworks and tools for personal and spiritual growth.
This tour brings the Center's innovative approach straight into your community.

Rabbi Hillel and Chaya Lester will be teaching experiential Torah classes, 
melding classic Torah, Kabbalah, Psychology & Meditation. 

Chaya will also be debuting her one-women "inner-tainment" show 
"Babel's Daughter" 
A unique blend of story, poetry, and interactive performance art.

Thrs. Aug. 18th: 
The Shalom School
  834 28th Ave.
  San Francisco, CA

Love's Language - Torah Apps for Relationships
A Tu B'Av Seminar with Chaya Lester - 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Our most precious relationships are built or broken by how we speak to each other. Building loving relationships is hard work...we need tools to help us. This seminar provides tools. Through a unique mix of Kabbalistic teachings and psychological exercises, this seminar will share with you a language of love. You will come away with practical and powerful Torah-based tools and techniques for creating & maintaining love in your life. 
(Open to men & women, special discount for couples!)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136534499764385 


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Sat. Aug. 20th: 
Ohr HaChaim Beit Midrash, Berkeley, CA
  Shabbat teaching at the Beit Midrash with Rabbi Hillel Lester
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beit-Midrash-Ohr-HaChaim/298257777341


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  Sunday Aug. 21st : 
 Chochmat Halev
 2215 Prince Street
 Berkeley, CA 94705
 510-704-9687
http://www.chochmat.org/prepare-for-the-holidays.html

  "Breaks that Build", Transformative Torah from Jerusalem
 with Rabbi Hillel and Chaya Lester, 2:00 - 5:30 pm

 Workshop with Rabbi Hillel: 2:00pm-3:30 pm
"Breaking in order to become whole, an inner journey from Tisha b'Av to Rosh Hashana” - Utilizing Torah-based tools for personal growth, this workshop explores our areas of brokenness and the unique potential for illumination and transformation that is found there. Synthesizing Kabbalah, Psychology and Meditation, Rabbi Hillel guides participants on a inner journey of depth-learning and personal healing.      

 Performance with Chaya: 3:30 - 5:30 pm  
"Babel's Daughter; from the Bible-Belt to the Holy Land" 
A show that traces the cosmic, sometimes-comic, always-poetic, spiritual journey of a young woman from the Mississippi Delta to the hills of Jerusalem. The show is entertaining and inspirational as well as educational, offering a dynamic synthesis of spoken-word performance art with audience-engaged Torah learning. This show will not just entertain you, it will guide you on your own journey of Torah learning and spiritual awakening!


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Wed. Aug. 24th: 
Spirit Talk Live 
Radio Interview with Rabbi Wayne Dosick  
at 11:00 am Pacific time

 Interview with Chaya about her work, her new show, 
and the opening of the Center this fall.

To Listen Live:
http://healthylife.net/RadioShow/Radio%20Host%20Profiles.htm


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  Wed. Aug. 24th: 
Congregation B’nai Israel
 2111 Bryan Avenue
Tustin, CA 92782
Phone: 714.730.9693
http://www.cbi18.org/category/events2011-08

Performance with Chaya Lester: 7:00 pm
"Babel's Daughter; from the Bible-Belt to the Holy Land"
A show that traces the cosmic, sometimes-comic, always-poetic, spiritual journey of a young woman from the Mississippi Delta to the hills of Jerusalem. The show is entertaining and inspirational as well as educational, offering a dynamic synthesis of spoken-word performance art with audience-engaged Torah learning. This show will not just entertain you, it will guide you on your own journey of Torah learning and spiritual awakening!
 

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  Sun. Aug. 28th: 
Ahavat Torah Congregation
  343 Church Lane, 
  Brentwood, CA 
 (310) 362-1111
http://www.ahavattorahcongregation.org/index.htm


"Breaks that Build" 
A Workshop & One-Woman Show
with Rabbi Hillel and Chaya

2:00 - 5:00 pm

 Part I:  "Breaking in order to become whole" 
 Synthesizing Kabbalah, Psychology and Meditation, Rabbi Hillel guides participants on a journey of depth-learning and personal healing.
2pm-3.15pm 

Part II: Chaya's One-Woman Show: 
"Babel's Daughter; from the Bible-Belt to the Holy Land" 
A show that traces the cosmic, sometimes-comic, always-poetic, spiritual journey of a young woman from the Mississippi Delta to the hills of Jerusalem. The show is entertaining and inspirational as well as educational, offering a dynamic synthesis of spoken-word performance art with audience-engaged Torah learning. This show will not just entertain you, it will guide you on your own journey of Torah learning and spiritual awakening!
3.30-5pm


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  Mon., Aug. 29th: 
The Elijah Minyan
 3207 Cadencia St.
 Carlsbad, CA 92009
http://www.elijahminyan.com/The_Elijah_Minyan_Current_S.html

Performance with Chaya Lester: 7:30 pm
"Babel's Daughter; from the Bible-Belt to the Holy Land" 
A show that traces the cosmic, sometimes-comic, always-poetic, spiritual journey of a young woman from the Mississippi Delta to the hills of Jerusalem. The show is entertaining and inspirational as well as educational, offering a dynamic synthesis of spoken-word performance art with audience-engaged Torah learning. This show will not just entertain you, it will guide you on your own journey of Torah learning and spiritual awakening!


We hope to see you!