Jewish Sacred Aging Television’s new show, Conversations, features Rabbi Richard Address and guests discussing topics relevant to Baby Boomers coping with spiritual questions and issues of aging.
In this episode, Rabbi Address concludes his conversation with Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Ph.D., a Philadelphia-based spiritual director and editor of the new book, Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives.
In this program, Rabbi Elwell discusses her practice as a spiritual director, and offers several web resources for information about spiritual directors.
- Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal www.aleph.org
- Yedidya Center www.yedidyacenter.org
- Lev Shomeah http://isabellafreedman.org/levshomea
- Spiritual Direction International www.sdiworld.org
You can watch the “Conversations” program in the player below.
This was a very helpful conversation during my early morning meditation. I received my Pastoral Leadership Program certificate a year ago from Seattle University and was the only Jewish artist amongst priests and pastors. I have found that being an art teacher has helped create that safe place in my studio classroom for those deeper conversations and has made my task as mentor and teacher much richer. Now that I am almost seventy I find that my life has taken on a whole new dimension that has me on a new adventure with this added perspective of listening to God and others during each day, like I tuned into another radio station! I appreciated the very articulate way Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell expressed herself and it helps me understand more clearly what I am about. I still have to pinch myself that this really is my function, kind of like when I became a mother in my early twenties. I think the search and hunger after wisdom is the key! I too, am involved with being a bridge worker between Jews and Christians.