Around the world, and around your community, Jews celebrate Shabbat. Shabbat is coming together every week to set apart time from daily work for rest, appreciation, and gratitude. The common thread in these celebrations is that they're family centered. How ever your family observes Shabbat, Our Family Shabbat Journal is the place to create and record how your family expresses this special time and to enhance everyone's experience. Judaism values the power of words. A journal is the perfect place to collect words of reflection, memories, and intentions. For the young and the creative, Our Family Shabbat Journal includes weekly space for visual expression: draw, collage, or add stickers. If your Shabbat observance includes refraining from writing or drawing, use this journal as part of preparing for Shabbat (the first page) and then as part of marking its end (the second page). There are numerous ways to use the weekly pages. Experiment:  ● Ask everyone to contribute to each prompt ● Ask whoever feels inspired by a given prompt to contribute ● Assign a single family member to a specific prompt ● Take turns each week with one family member or group of family members responding to all the prompts ● Any other options your family thinks up

Our Family Shabbat Journal

Parenting & Relationships

Goldberg, Bonni

Family Activities

Vizye

There is increasing evidence from neuroscience, leadership studies, and positive psychology that demonstrate the positive impact of a gratitude habit on success. The journey as an entrepreneur includes snags, frustrations, disappointments and rejection. Too often these moments drain energy, eat away at determination, and deflate confidence unless you have the right tools to manage them. Successful entrepreneurs will tell you that gratitude is an essential one. As a busy entrepreneur it's also essential to spend your time, money and energy wisely. Invest just two minutes a day in this specially designed journal to make gratitude a habit and gain the following benefits: - Increase your energy level - Help you network - Hone your decision making capabilities - Increase your productivity - Stay positive and focused - Reduce feeling envious - Bounce back from stress and disappointment more quickly - Improve sleep - Help you get mentors - Increase your long-term well-being over 10% -- the same impact as doubling your income

The Busy Entrepreneur's Gratitude Journal

Business & Money

Personal Finance

The Mikvah is a pool of water used for the purpose of ritual immersion. Every tradition has its water ritual and the Mikvah is ours. As Jews, we have a right and an opportunity to explore it, claim it, and make our water ritual relevant to us in our time and place.Start here. Why use a Mikvah ritually--for what purpose? Here is your invitation to consider modern perspectives along with five steps to find your personal answers.Dip you toe in.

Reclaiming Mikvah: Embracing Jewish Water Ritual

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Mikvah is our Jewish water ritual. Performed since the days our ancestors worshipped in the Temple, Mikvah ritual was preserved, reimagined, and codified so that this defining tradition could continue wherever Jewish communities exist for all of time.
Explore the one Mikvah practice exclusive to women: Niddah (Separation). Let it inform or transform you. Be one of your generation to reclaim this water ritual, layered in wisdom and symbolism, for Jewish women today.
Take this ninety day journey of body, mind, and soul. Explore and adapt the traditional Jewish water ritual of Mikvah immersion and experience a powerful, ancient ritual.
Merge the past with the present and the ancient with the modern in a single act that connects you and your ancestors.
Take the plunge.

Reclaiming Mikvah: A Guided Journal

Two hundred mini-daily essays that each explore an aspect of the creative writing process, an exercise to get you writing, and a quotation to tickle the imagination and keep the writing going. A thoughtful and fun collection of beguiling provocations, an irresistible invitation for new and seasoned writers. Readers also learn about their writing style and how to trust their intuition.

Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life

Self-Help

Creativity