Roots and Trails

03/01/2026

For those of us celebrating Purim amidst this wild time, this may be of interest.https://jerichovincent.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-hamantaschen

02/11/2026

Join us Friday, February 13th, at 6:30pm for Kabbalat Shabbat service and potluck at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington. This service will be Co-led by Kohenet Yepeth Perla Rubin of Roots and Trails and Mike Jetter. First timers welcome! The service will be preceded by an 18 minute meditation starting at 6pm sharp (assemble at 5:50) and followed by a potluck nosh. Enter at the side door; look for a sign for meditation space. Services will be upstairs as usual. Potluck is vegetarian; please label ingredients. The space is ADA accessible (elevator to second floor) and handicap parking spaces are available. For a link to the dvar written for this week's parsha and questions we will discuss that eve, if not on RHQ's email list, let us know and we can forward it to you. Come grow Jewish Renewal Community with us!
https://www.ruachhamaqom.org/events/kabbalat-shabbat-4

02/02/2026

If we surrendered to Earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees."
Rainer Maria Rilke

Tu b'Shevat Blessings

12/17/2025

Support Palestinian olive farmers!

The Jews For Food Aid Chanukah Tzedakah campaign aims to raise $36,000 for Palestinian olive farmers.

Tzedakah is a practice of solidarity that leads us to collective safety and freedom for all people, binds ourselves to others, and brings us closer to a world redeemed.

The Jews For Food Aid Chanukah Tzedakah campaign aims to raise $36,000 for Palestinian olive farmers. Tzedakah is a practice of solidarity that leads us to collective safety and freedom for all people, binds ourselves to others, and brings us closer to a world redeemed.

10/24/2025

We are hosting a meditative, musical Shabbat ( service, potluck..) gathering this Friday Cheshvan 2,🌈 and Cheshvan 16 🌱 in honor of Reb Arthur for Tikkun Olam. PM if joining us.

09/26/2025

Join us with L'Chaim Collective this eve to welcome in Shabbat of Return, Shabbat Teshuva: https://www.lchaimcollective.org/
Go to events to register & sign up to contribute..
L'Shana Tova Umituka. May there be peace in the 🌎 🙏

09/10/2025

Worth funding!! Pitch in if you can:

Rosewater Taharah is an anthology about Jewish Herbalism at End of Li… EoL Herbalism needs your support for Publishing: Jewish End of Life and Grief Herbalism

09/03/2025

The month’s name is mystically understood as an anagram for אני לדודי ודודי לי, ani l’dodi v’dodi li/’ translated as: "I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine’ from Song of Songs." As late season grasses flower, a whole fresh array of herbaceous species flower, new awarenesses arise about tending Divinity within amdist community around, and while experiencing lamplighting, feeling it!

09/01/2025

Check check this out:

Galilee Dreamers is a program of Oranim International at Oranim College that unites Jewish and Arab high school students, teachers, and teachers-in-training from Israel to work towards a shared society. Students work together in their local communities and have the opportunity to travel abroad toget...

08/08/2025

Ancestral altar incantation; day after day, month after month, every moment.

May every excess morsel of nutritious food, medicine, comfort, interdimensional care, support, effective true help get to all where it is needed speedily and thoroughly!!

Heal, heal, heal these raw wounds throughout all generations and lands where they reverbate. Shalom, Shalom, Salam

07/20/2025

Mark your calendars: August 22 Mike Jetter and Kohenet YP will co facilitate a musical Shabbat and Maariv service at the UU. Meditation 6-6:30. Service 6:30-7:30 pm followed by kiddish, vegetarian potluck and community connecting. Prayer books will be provided.This is a sacred time as we transition integrating the heavy teachings of Av into the renewal of approaching Elul. Please spread the word, join us, and bring a friend!
Kabbalat Shabbat// lay-led — Congregation Ruach haMaqom

Join Yepeth Perla, Mike Jetter and your favorite community members (and bring a friend) for our second community-presented Kabbalat Shabbat and delicious vegetarian pot luck! Please make a description card to go with your dish, indicating ingredients.