The MultiFaith Storytelling Institute

All of the stories from our CD King Solomon's Daughter
are now available for you to listen to and enjoy!
https://moshdc.org/category/audio-files/

https://youtu.be/BDIc3n01Vxg

Blessings: Giving and Receiving Rabbinic Pastor Shulamit Fagan offers a heart opening session in giving blessings.MOSh: Minyan Oneg Shabbat, is a Zoomagogue, an online Jewish Renewal congre...

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Story Library – MOShDC.org The Master Key September 12, 2024 No Comments Rabbi Ze’ev is tasked by the Baal Shem Tov with blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, using deep kabbalistic meditations. When the moment arrives, something unexpected happens, leaving Rabbi Ze’ev to rely on a deeper, more personal approach. Read More...

Torah Thoughts: The Kind of Compassion We Need Right Now

Ki Teitze 2024: Chasing Away the Mother Bird: The kind of compassion that we need right now! Reb Mark explores thr mitzvah of Shiluach haKen, chasing the mother vird away from the nest before taking her eggs or fledglings. MOSh: Minyan Oneg Shabbat, ...

Join us for our 2nd evening of storytelling, our custom of receiving Torah. Register at

MOSh – Minyan Oneg Shabbat We are a Zoomagogue, a highly participatory, musically charged, Torah-centered ONLINE community that promotes Judaism as spiritual practice. We foster inquiry and discernment in a setting that is contemplative, joyous, and fun!

I couldn’t say it any better, sharing without edits, from the always generous and courageous Nadia Bolz Weber.

“As you enter this new year, as you pack away the Christmas decorations and get out your stretchy pants,

as you face the onslaught of false promises offered you through new disciplines and elimination diets,

as you grasp for control of yourself and your life and this chaotic world -

May you remember that there is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love.

Yearly reminder: there is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love.

There is no resolution that, if kept, will make life less uncertain and allow you to control your aging parents and your teenage children and the way other people act.

So this year (as every year),

May you just skip the part where you resolve to be better do better and look better this time.

Instead, may you give yourself the gift of really, really low expectations. Not out of resignation, but out of generosity.

May you expect so little of yourself that you can be super proud of the smallest of accomplishments.

May you expect so little of the people in your life that you actually notice and cherish every small, lovely thing about them.

May you expect so little of the service industry that you notice more of what you do get and less of what you don't and then just tip really well anyhow.

May you expect to get so little out of 2024 that you can celebrate every single thing it offers you, however small.

Because you deserve joy and not disappointment.

So, I wish you a Happy as possible New Year.”

Love, Nadia.

Join Mark, Renée, and Shulamit, along with Rabbis Hanna Tiferet, Shefa Gold, Dan Goldblatt, and Dan (Dante) Gordon for a Shavuot evening of storytelling. Thursday May 25 at 8:45pm ET.
Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Shavuot Storytelling at MOSh - May 25pm ET - 8:45 - 10:30pm. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join Rabbis Mark Novak, Hanna Tiferet, Shefa Gold, Dan Gordon, Dan Goldblatt, and storytellers Shulamit Fagan and Renée Brachfeld in a tell-e-bration of Shavuot.

We invite you to join us! March 20 & 27 • 4-7pm EDT

Storytelling Workshop: The Multifaith Storytelling Institute March 20 & 27 This workshop is geared towards those who work in spiritual settings. Clergy, spiritual directors, chaplains, lay leaders, and beginners

Join us for 2 new offerings in October and November!

The MultiFaith Storytelling Institute Two Day Online Retreat This 2 day retreat is geared towards clergy, chaplains, spiritual leaders and storytellers