Ashland, Oregon



The Heart of the Days of Awe–

Sunday, September 12th, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Havurah Shir Hadash, Ashland Oregon


An exposé of the underlying heart-centered paths of the High Holidays/Days of Awe, illuminating passages from Liturgy, Ritual, Hasidism and Mystic teachings which prod us to open our hearts and choose Life during these critical days of balancing and re-alignment of the High Holiday season.




Why Sukkot is the Highest of the High Holidays– Hebrew Earth Consciousness… and other such Goodness

Thursday, September 23rd 7:00 -9:00 p.m.

Rabbi Sarah for Sukkot at The Havurah

6:00 p.m. bring your dinner and eat in the Sukkah– teaching begins at 7:00


Earth Based Torah/ Hebrew Mystery Tradition Teachings

with R’Sarah at The Havurah:



Sunday, October 10th 7:00-9:00 p.m.

‘Adonai’ as a Sacred Name of God

Thursday, November 4th 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The Hebrew Medicine Wheel

Sunday, December 19th 7:00-9:00 p.m.

‘Am HaTzvi’ People of the Deer–
Jewish shamanic teachings for Winter Solstice

Maggidic Offerings:

Saturday, October 30th 7:30-9:30 p.m.

at The Havurah

‘Shlomo Stories’ Melave Malka–

a night of storytelling and music featuring the
works of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z”l

Wilderness Events:

Sunday, December 12th, time and location to be determined

Jews on Shoes– a nature based snowshoeing outing accompanied by teachings in Earth Based Torah

Holidays/Festivals/Haggim/Seasonal Events:

Tuesday, December 21st

Winter Solstice Celebration Time and Location to be Determined–

Winter Solstice this year features a total lunar eclipse, visible from North America, offering us an unprecedented opportunity for bringing ourselves and the Earth into states of balance and inner alignment.  Join the Living Lab this year in celebrating this momentous event.




Potential Upcoming Classes with R’Sarah in Ashland:


  • Mussar, Prophecy, and Mysticism– a Primer for Today’s People, a text based study of Moshe Chayim Luzatto and Reb Nachman of Breslov, supplemented with other Sages from the Jewish Tradition.


  • In-Between the Pages of History, the hidden and untold history of the Jewish people.  A class exploring topics in Jewish History and Cultural Development, filling in crucial details often missing from standard Jewish History books and courses, opening up the points of connectivity in the evolution of Jewish culture, spiritual practice, mysticism, law, and the Jewish experience, in general.  Want to know who we really are as a Jewish People?  Join us for this invigorating class series.  (This course is being held in reserve, pending interest)



2010/11 General Living Lab Offerings in the Ashland Area,
Dates Times and Location TBD:


  • Story-Fire Circle– a seasonal Sacred Fire with story, music and myth weaving


  • Community Earth Oven Building Project

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