Through the modality of cultivating breath awareness, a spiritual resource that helps us remain in the present, we will sit together with Yiscah Smith and explore within ourselves, in quietude, the spiritual meaning and emotional experience of sacred chutzpah.

Yiscah Smith is a thought leader, spiritual activist, and agent of change who addresses the spiritual practice of encountering the Divine spark within, the foundation of authentic living. Yiscah teaches Jewish contemplative practice and spiritual texts at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and at Applied Jewish Spirituality. She has also founded, and currently directs, Conscious Community Nachlaot, an organization in Jerusalem that hosts in-person Shabbat spiritual gatherings, virtual guided meditation sits, and spiritual text classes. In addition, Yiscah works with individuals in her private spiritual mentoring practice.