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Sheila Peltz Weinberg

Author, Poet, Rabbi & Teacher

Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years. She has also worked in the fields of Jewish community relations, Jewish education and Hillel. She has published widely on such topics as feminism, spiritual direction, parenting, social justice and mindfulness from a Jewish perspective and has contributed commentaries to Kol HaNeshama, the Reconstructionist prayer book.

Rabbi Weinberg has taught mindfulness meditation and yoga to rabbis, Jewish professionals and lay people in the context of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She serves as a spiritual director to a variety of Jewish clergy including students and faculty at HUC-JIR in New York. She is creator and co-leader of the Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Program. She is married to Maynard Seider and they have three married children and six grandchildren.

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There Is Another Way is a collection of poems, reflections, meditations and Jewish teachings—woven together into a practice of awareness and moral courage. Sheila Weinberg shows us that Judaism and mindfulness equip us with compassion and awareness—not by protecting us from pain but by teaching us how to feel it fully without going numb. The book offers a path which is neither enraged nor numb, but rather an open heart inside the wound. It teaches us to be present, to breathe without looking away, to choose compassion over hardening and to see each other as human images of the Divine. As a non-Jew and a Palestinian, I found this book profoundly inspiring and creative. It does not ask me to abandon my pain, but it reminds me of our shared humanity, our shared breath and the simple radical possibility of loving all God's creation.

—Dr. Samah Elhajibrahim, PhD,
Palestinian scholar and peace activist

You will read this book many times, as I did, letting its heart-wrenching message of compassion for all living beings sustain your own commitment to kindness.

—Sylvia Boorstein, PhD,
Co-Founder, Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Author of “Pay Attention for Goodness’ Sake”
and “That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist”

Read my book, “Let us all Breathe Together”

2020. Let's face it: the global pandemic, combined with accelerated violence and negativity throughout America, sparked a vortex of high anxiety for the world and its people. In Let Us All Breathe Together, Rabbi Weinberg offers a thoughtful collection of spiritual messages, insightful poems, and perceptive essays that explore ways to unite faith with reality—all of which combine to provide a valuable guide through the uncertainties of turbulent times.

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Book cover by Sheila Peltz Weinberg - "Let us all Breathe Together: Prose, Poems, Practices"

This fall I have had the opportunity to be a part of many presentations and discussions. Due to COVID, they were via Zoom, and recordings of them are available on my video page.