Class Title – Walking With Your Inner Spirit: Cultivating an Understanding Heart
Class taught by Yiscah Smith
Class description: For many, the term “understanding heart” conveys an impossible reality, a contradiction and even nonsense. How can a heart understand? Isn’t the domain of understanding found in the mind? Join us as Yiscah shares a teaching from Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, known as the Piaseczner Rebbe (d.1943, Poland), on opening up to the spiritual life that is within all of us. The Rebbe’s inspiring ideas discuss our inherent spiritual nature, how we awaken to the Divine presence within us and how we can cultivate this awareness in our spiritual practice. In particular, the Piascezner teaches that the integration of thought and feeling into partnership and harmony serves as an essential component of the higher consciousness experience — the dimension where one encounters the Divine spirit within. Her talks will be anchored, at the beginning and end, by short periods of contemplative silence.
