January 4 - 25, 2009

with Rabbi Jeff Roth and other teachers

at the Am Kolel Retreat Center in Beallsville, Maryland
(1 hrs from DC - 3 hrs from Philadelphia)

Join us at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center for a week of Jewish meditation with the Elat Chayyim Advanced Meditation program (Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008 – Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009 in Falls Village, CT).

Then deepen your practice with a month-long Jewish meditation retreat.

Structure of the Retreat:
We are very excited to be holding a month-long meditation retreat. There are many benefits to an extended period of retreat practice, which makes this opportunity a unique one in the Jewish World. The retreat will be in silence comparable to other Jewish silent retreats. Most mornings, there will be davenning using chanting, and some mornings will be used for solo davenning. There will be instructions given most days. There will be daily lectures, some of which will be prerecorded. All participants will have private interviews with the teaching staff - two or three times per week - with other contacts as needed to support your practice.

Our hope is that a significant number of people will want to sit for all 4 weeks. Preference will be given to those interested in sitting the entire period - shorter periods will be considered only if space permits. The retreat will be limited to 25 people.

People interested in sitting for the entire period who are not currently in the ECAMP program will be given special permission to attend the first week. For those sitting the first week, we have made arrangements to ease the logistics of changing locations.

We also will welcome people to sit for three weeks, beginning on January 4th. In order to facilitate as few distractions as possible, we will try and make December 28th and January 4th the only times to begin the retreat.

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Facilitator of the Retreat:
Rabbi Jeff Roth will be the primary facilitator of the whole period. Other teachers will join for shorter periods. The final staffing pattern will depend on the number of participants. There will be a sliding scale of prices. The three weeks at Am Kolel will cost $1000/$1500/$2000 for room and board, based on single/double/quad occupancy. There are limited options for single and double rooms, and requests for those rooms will be on a first come, first served basis. Teachers at the retreat will be offering their time freely. Donations to support their work will be discussed at the end of the retreat. Costs for the week at ECAMP are available at: http://www.isabellafreedman.org/ecamp.

Room and Board Costs:
The cost for the three weeks: $1000 (quad occupancy) $1500 (double occupancy) $2000 (single). More information about Sanctuary available at: http://www.sanctuaryretreatcenter.com.

For More Information:
Contact Rabbi Jeff Roth at jeff@awakenedheartproject.org
Register Now.