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WJCS Healing Center
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COUNSELING SERVICES
Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction
Rabbi Pamela Wax is available to provide pastoral counseling, offering a spiritual perspective on life issues, both routine and crisis-oriented. She is also available to provide spiritual direction for those who wish to explore and deepen their relationship with God. Donations to the WJCS Jewish Healing Center are requested for these services.
For more information or to register for any of our WJCS Healing Center programs, contact:
Rabbi Pamela Wax
Spiritual Care Coordinator
Westchester Jewish Community Services
pwax@wjcs.com
914-761-0600 ext. 149
Made possible, in part, with funds from UJA Federation
Jewish Healing Center Mission Statement
The WJCS Jewish Healing Center is Westchester’s first Jewish healing center. Our vision is to promote the spiritual, intellectual, physical and mental health of Westchester’s Jewish community by infusing a collection of programs and services with the intrinsic power of Judaism’s history and tradition.
Whether faced with a particular need or concern, or engaged in a journey to find Jewish connections and spiritual fulfillment, the WJCS Jewish Healing Center provides the community with opportunities that foster health and healing for the mind, body and spirit within a Jewish context.
Most Jewish spiritual support groups are co-facilitated by a rabbi and a social worker or other skilled professional. The facilitators may utilize Jewish music, liturgy, meditation, stories and study, in addition to traditional psychotherapeutic methods to aid the process of emotional and spiritual healing.
Sh'ma: Jewish Group Spiritual Direction (3 monthly sessions) -- $36
Wednesdays, October 21, November 11, December 16
9-10:30 AM at WJCS, 845 N. Broadway, N. White Plains
Designed for those already in conversation with the Divine as well as for those on a serious journey to enhance their prayer lives, these sessions will combine God-talk, chanting, prayer, silence and deep listening, as means to access spiritual wholeness and connection.
Ritual-Craft: Sanctifying the Thresholds of Our Lives - $54
Mondays, November 2 and November 30 (plus 2 privately-arranged sessions with either Robin Friedman or Rabbi Pamela Wax)
7:00-9:00 PM at Temple Israel Center, 280 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains
Our rituals of daily life ground us and help us feel safe. For life's major thresholds, however, we too often let others "do ritual" for us, or we forgo ritual altogether. In this workshop, we will learn about the art and craft of rituals, discern what needs sanctifying in our own lives and create a meaningful ritual or ceremony for that occasion: whether it be a special anniversary or birthday, a healing ritual for loss or illness, or a way to mark or honor a significant transition.
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