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"Precious Worries: the Piacezna Rebbe on responding to our concerns"
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It is so natural to seek out and cling to security. To having enough, being enough. And yet, that clinging obfuscates our access to the divine. In this session we will explore a midrash on a bickering Cain and Abel using insights from the Piacezna Rebbe's journal of spiritual practice, Tzav V'Ziruz. Through his work, we will examine how to allow our egos to give way to living with more trust, and practice a speaking and listening exercise with tools from Nonviolent Communication.

Hannah Kapnik Ashar is a fellow in Hadar’s Advanced Kollel. Hannah is a Faculty Member at The Bronfman Fellowship, where she previously was Manager of Fellowship Year Experience. She formerly served as the Associate Spiritual Leader of Congregation Bonai Shalom, the Conservative synagogue in Boulder, Colorado. Hannah co-founded The Tefilah Retreat, a weekend of Jewish spiritual practice for young adults, and Come & Listen, podcast of Jewish existential ideas, for which she was an Upstart Fellow. Hannah consulted on the Girls In Trouble Curriculum, exploring creative interpretation of stories of women in Tanach. Hannah participated in the Kenissa: Network of Communities of Meaning Consultation, the M2 Senior Educators Cohort, and Ayeka Soulful Educator Training. Hannah has been a birth doula since 2011. She graduated from Wellesley College cum laude and has studied at Hadar and Pardes. Hannah is married to Yoni, a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist who studies chronic pain and placebo in the brain. Their daughters are Zivi and Ayala, who can hardly wait to return to Bonai for Shabbat, and, a new-ish addition: Mira Tair.