Mental Health and the High Holy Days Booklet
In this booklet Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig provides halachic and philosophical guidance for those experiencing mental health challenges during the High Holy Days (Yamim Noraim). To
Mental Health Shabbat Candle Lighting Ceremony
Listen to Blue Dove team members talk about the ways Shabbat improves our mental health, and a mental health Shabbat candle lighting activity!
Using Jewish Values to Become a Better Ally
What exactly does it mean to be an ally? Is saying you are an ally enough? Are you required to take a more active role in order to be considered someone who supports a particular community? If so, what are you meant to do? How do Jewish Mental Health Values teach us about being an Ally?
Depression and the Holiday of Joy
Sukkot is known in traditional rabbinic sources as a holiday of joy and gratitude, but what does this holiday look like for someone who can’t feel that joy, either because of a chronic condition of a momentary challenge? How can we make our Sukkot places for sharing and love between people?
Making Peace Spaces
How does the Sukkah represent an ideal for safety, support, and love? And, how can we bring those lessons into our own lives and make Sukkot-Spaces of peace and safety?
Sukkot Shleimut With Wholeness And Peacefulness
Make Your Own Mental Health Lulav and Esrog!
Sukkot, the Jewish harvest holiday of the “huts,” is a week of celebration that starts five days after Yom Kippur. Rabbinic tradition tells us a Sukkah, or temporary structure with at least three sides and a roof of thatch or branches, represents the dwellings the Israelites built and lived in during their 40 years of wandering in the desert.