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# Rabbi Sigàl

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## Posts

- [RabBiLOG](https://rabbisigal.org/rabbilog/) - MEndful Path. Kabbalah to inspire the heart and mind. Meditations and contemplations for well being and peace.
- [December's Universal Light Celebrations](https://rabbisigal.org/2025/12/14/universal-light-celebrations/) - As Hanukkah was approaching, a woman asked me: “Rabbi, if Hanukkah is the festival of lights, why don’t Jewish families decorate their homes with lights?”Then she added, with a longing in her voice, “I love those lights.” I, too, love the light decorations during the darkest time of the year, near the Winter Solstice. But
- [Gratitude to Remedy Entitled Attitude](https://rabbisigal.org/2025/11/24/gratitude-to-remedy-entitled-attitude/) - Tov l’hodot. It is good to give thanks. (Psalm 92) Thanksgiving is here. Is it about giving thanks? Is it about giving? It may be hard to tell what is hidden behind the huge turkey and the elaborate plans for the big shopping days that follow. It is too bad we are distracted from focusing
- [Holidays Infused with the Promise of Spring. ](https://rabbisigal.org/2025/04/08/holidays-infused-with-the-promise-of-spring/) - Passover and Easter are holidays infused with the promise of Spring. I feel it in the air! I want it to fill the air! We need to feel it in the air! Because, this year, once again, the sound of the breaking Matzah will echo the shattering of our broken hearts and our fears. The salt
- [Giving Thanks: A Daily Practice Through Challenging Times](https://rabbisigal.org/2024/11/24/giving-thanks-a-daily-practice-through-challenging-times/) - Gratitude is not merely a fleeting emotion or occasional practice but an integral part of daily life. Rooted in ancient blessings and rituals, the practice of giving thanks has sustained individuals and communities through both joy and hardship.As we approach Thanksgiving—a day that naturally lends itself to reflection and gratitude—it's worth exploring how this timeless practice can serve
- [Time: A Hanukkah Teaching](https://rabbisigal.org/2024/12/24/time-a-hanukkah-teaching/) - I saw an ad for a cruise line that said, Time is our most precious commodity. My father-in-law talked about taking a cruise to Alaska for years. It was a dream he held, but he passed away before he acted on it. This is a reminder to us that time is not just precious—it’s also
- [L'Shanah Tova](https://rabbisigal.org/2023/09/15/lshannah-tovah/) - I would like to express my heartfelt wishes at this time of turning our gaze onto a New Jewish Year. May it be a sweet and healthy New Year. May the year 5784 be a mendful path that brings us more ease, contentment and delight. May we share in more peace and may tranquility and friendship
- [Ease into Messiness](https://rabbisigal.org/2018/02/10/ease-into-messiness/) - Why Seder? Seder in Hebrew means order. Receive our newsletter Messiness is life. Humans have been talking and writing about chaos and messiness for thousands of years. It has always been a part of
- [Freedom to Inspire Your Heart](https://rabbisigal.org/2016/07/04/freedom-to-inspire-your-heart/) - Rabbi Sigal Kesher Shalom Abington Congregation in PA
- [FDR's Four Freedoms for Passover](https://rabbisigal.org/2017/03/19/four-freedoms/) - Let's begin with a question: What is the most reoccurring number at the Seder? I begin with a question about numbers because the Seder is a night of questions, and also of numbers. We ask four questions, tell about the four children and drink four cups of wine. The four cups of wine at the Seder
- [Find New Passover Freedom](https://rabbisigal.org/2024/04/02/find-new-passover-freedom/) - Spring welcomes us with sunshine and new colors. Life is infused with hope again. Passover is the holiday of Spring and freedom. It is also the holiday of new beginnings, asking questions and telling stories. It is time to come together and share with others. We eat unleavened bread (Matzah) as a reminder to let
- [Seeding a Soul Inspired Life](https://rabbisigal.org/2024/01/21/seeding-a-soul-inspired-life/) - The time has come to seed the garden of your life with new soul inspired seeds. Tu Bishvat (15th day in the month of Shevat) is almost here. Under a full moon this week we will celebrate Tu Bishvat - we celebrate trees and nature. Go outside and gaze at the full moon, pregnant with new possibilities, and
- [Mendful and Authentic in 2024](https://rabbisigal.org/2024/01/02/1570/) - Will 2024 be the year you act more authentically on your values? 2023 has been a difficult year with the war in Israel. Personally, 2023 was a year of many changes and transitions for me. Post pandemic we are definitely free to roam about more freely but, we are forever changed by the years of the pandemic in many ways.Many
- [How to let go and be turned](https://rabbisigal.org/2023/09/11/how-to-let-go-and-be-turned/) - Hashivaynu e’lecha ve’nashuvah Come let us turn, return, and be turned to the one. After Teshuvah, the willful work of turning and returning, we let go of preconceived notions of what we are and how life should be. We breathe, relax and allow life to unfold for us. The more we allow ourselves to be
- [Welcome to Purim: Happiness is Served](https://rabbisigal.org/2023/02/28/welcome-to-purim-happiness-is-served/) - Purim is a holiday dedicated to happiness and fun. On Purim we are "commanded" to be happy and have fun. But what if you don't feel like engaging in the fun? That is why it is a "commandment!" Even when, or especially when, you don't feel happy or you are not in the mood to celebrate, Purim is here
- [Playing Hide and Seek](https://rabbisigal.org/2023/03/03/playing-hide-and-seek/) - How long have you been hiding your dreams and aliveness? What desires are you denying yourself? What are you afraid of? Spring is a time to stop hiding and take a leap of faith. Look at nature around you and see how trees bloom and bulbs sprout without any effort or angsts. To spring forward like flowers do, we need to trust and not
- [Polyvagal Theory: A Mendful Pointer to Wellbeing](https://rabbisigal.org/2022/10/31/polyvagal/) - Polyvagal theory and other neuroscience teach about important systems that regulate our responses. These new areas of study are important for us to understand because they point us to wellbeing. The theories explain patterns in our body-mind which heavily influence our lives; physiologically, psychologically, relationally and cognitively. I have seen the positive effect of sharing
- [Heartfelt Prayers](https://rabbisigal.org/2021/01/09/heartfelt-prayers/) - I’m writing this at the end of an eventful week. At the end of any week we need a Sabbath; to stop, rest, reflect, renew, and find peace (shalom) but we especially need it this week. Death and sickness from Covid-19 are at a record high. History was made in Georgia with the election of an African
- [Justice, justice you shall pursue](https://rabbisigal.org/2020/06/04/justice-justice-you-shall-pursue/) - Tzedek, tzedek tirdof. (Deuteronomy 16:20) My heart aches more each day as the heat of hatred and racism is rising, and dry tinder of broken promises is accumulating on our streets. It’s hard to witness the injustice, cruelty, violence, disregard for human life and property, hatred and anger. People are hurting, scared, hopeless and angry.
- [Let's talk about LOVE](https://rabbisigal.org/2020/02/12/lets-talk-about-love/) - To love is to be willing to interpret someone’s not so appealing behavior with a more benevolence reason.
- [This New Year Resolve to Mend](https://rabbisigal.org/2019/12/12/resolve-to-be-mendful/) - Receive our newsletter We are the clay, and life, the potter’s hands. Life changes and shapes us into what we are throughout our lifetime. Do you remember the times you softly surrendered into the hands of change like soft clay, and allowed life to transform you? And, do you also remember how at other times
- [Instead of setting goals, set optimal conditions](https://rabbisigal.org/2019/12/04/setting-conditions/) - I loooooove retreats! I'm honored to be entrusted with the opportunity to create optimal conditions that allow for learning and transformation at retreats or many years. I pray and hope "ah ha" moments and seeds of insights are planted during the retreat and are taken home bloom. The conditions you set at home along with
- [Mendful Living is Soul-Centered Living](https://rabbisigal.org/2019/11/02/soul-centered-living/) - It takes courage to embrace the unknown and to find our way in new situations. Change can be scary and confusing. We must find "ground" first to calm down, so that the fear based part of the brain is not the only thing controlling our behavior. I call that part of the brain, the F brain; fear, fight, flight and freeze. The Mendful Path mentors us
- [How to Gain Perspective?](https://rabbisigal.org/2016/06/10/how-to-keep-perspective-and-hope/) - Contemplating heartfulness and interconnection. Jewish meditation and spiritual meaning.
- [It's Mending Time](https://rabbisigal.org/2018/02/12/its-mending-time/) - Together we mend our lives and the world. One conversation, one action, one commitment, one small step at a time. Receive our newsletter More than ever, the world is calling us to fulfill our mission of Tikkun Olam. Tikkun Olam is rooted in Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah and is summoning us to strive toward repair,
- [Building a Shelter of Healing and Peace](https://rabbisigal.org/2017/10/04/building-a-shelter-of-healing-and-peace/) - We enter the gates of Sukkot tonight. The week long harvest holiday of thanksgiving. With the full moon rising into the cool evening air, we gather in the fragile and beautiful temporary huts (sukkah in Hebrew) to be together. With gratitude for what we have and share, this year we also enter Sukkot with a
- [Paving a Mendful Path with Questions](https://rabbisigal.org/2017/11/07/shuvah-its-time-to-come-home/) - Return to the home of your soul with mindful mysticism and medtation. Mindful, spiritual and musical Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur services NJ PA
- [Six Ways to Peaceful](https://rabbisigal.org/2017/12/08/six-ways-to-peaceful/) - “orient back to love, balance, and peace in the midst of what often appears to be a fractured, violent world—to shepherd ourselves back to wholeness and kindness.” Here are Rabbi Sigal’s suggestions for living more peacefully in a tumultuous world in an interview with Shannon Sexton Six Ways to Live More Peacefully in a Violent World
- [Awaken Passion & Aliveness](https://rabbisigal.org/2016/02/12/awaken-passion-aliveness/) - The commercial presentation of Valentine’s Day, or what I like to call remembering love day, can be fun, but it can also make some feel bad, left out and unloved if they don’t participate in the giving and receiving of bonbons and roses. On top of that, for many, feeling aliveness in relationships is fading,

## Pages

- [Retreats with Rabbi Sigàl](https://rabbisigal.org/) - Learn the Mendful Path to peace, ease and contentment. Join Rabbi Sigal, a powerful Guide and mentor, for a transformative retreat.
- [Mentoring](https://rabbisigal.org/mentoring/) - Living Mendful-ness Mentoring/Coaching for individuals and couples Mentoring/Coaching/Facilitation of groups, executives and professional teams Contact us for details: call or email shmayoga at gmail Testimonials: "I recently attended a three-day workshop led by Rabbi Sigal and it marked a profound transition in my life. Rabbi Sigal created an experience for me that years of therapy
- [Mendful-ness](https://rabbisigal.org/mendful/) - Welcome to the Mendful Path. We hope you join our journey to mend our lives and our world.
- [Wedding Officiant](https://rabbisigal.org/weddings/) - Rabbi Sigal, experienced wedding officiant. Inspiring and expert guidance for all couples in love. Sarasota Bradenton Tampa FL 267-627-4425
- [About Rabbi Sigal](https://rabbisigal.org/about-rabbi-sigal/) - Religion is art. Many approach spirituality and religion with rigidity which lacks creativity, joy and fulfillment. We use practices and concepts that constrict us instead of free us; they become obstacle to experiencing the unbounded mystery and the potentiality of a joyful authentic self. They block us from expressing our joyful nature and the dance of
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