As I sat at the menorah last night, I pondered the question that arises in me every year at this time. 

How do we bring more of this light into a world thirsting for it?

I know I'm not the only one wondering. 

A few weeks ago on a Friday night, a visiting neighbor made an offhand comment about how she never understood women who had "minds like men" and loved to learn.

I stayed quiet, but my mother, sister and I caught each other’s eyes.

We aren’t women who think like men. We’re women who are hungry for women’s Torah. For women’s wisdom. With minds and hearts yearning for an aliveness we were never explicitly taught was possible.

It's been a search and labor of many years for me, from inheriting a Judaism that lived mostly in the mind, to embracing a feminine element of Torah that is felt, trusted, and alive in the body.

I’ve come to understand that this work was never meant to be done alone. It begins with us, but it does not end with us. This work is about remembering and re-grounding ourselves in the core strengths and principles that have always lived within women, long before they were named or taught.

That understanding is what made sitting among leading Torah teachers at last week's SHARE summit so profoundly moving for me.

Picture it.

Thirty six of the most erudite, learned female Torah teachers of this generation.

Shiteles, tichels, hats, scarves.
Chassidus, Tanach, Gemara, philosophy, Jewish law and more.

Rabbanits, Rebbetzins, PhDs, school principals, toenet halacha, and also, moms. (Read: me.)

All united around one shared question - How can we bring more of this inner light, this feminine Torah to you?

This summit took place in the hills of Ma’aleh Hachamisha, with views stretching all the way to the Gush. The conversations were elevating and intimate. Women speaking freely, without bracing or hiding, about how much Torah and the future of women’s learning matters to them.

These are women who lose sleep on your behalf. Over dreams you may not yet have allowed yourself to name.

After three days that felt far too short, we sat in our closing circle. And despite my usual tendency to have a lot to say, this time I didn’t. I was overwhelmed with gratitude and awe. How lucky we are to have these women as the Torah teachers of this generation.

These are the powerhouse leaders. Voices you're each intimately acquainted with and already learn from. These are women with huge platforms, reach and followings.

These are arguably some of the most influential women in Klall Yisrael today.... whose wisdom is only matched by their humility.  

Mystics who are also moms.

I had the privilege of guiding these women through a breathwork session on Yud Tes Kislev. And honestly, I was nervous. Every breath facilitator “knows” that the so called “head people” are the hardest. You want the “heart people” for this work.

I was wrong.

Watching teachers I have long looked up to quietly get down on the floor, breathe, cry, and emerge with faces and eyes aglow was deeply humbling. Every single one shared about what shifted. With minimal effort or facilitation required.

They loved it so much they asked for a second session. And the same thing happened again. No resistance. Just openness to the wisdom of the breath, sharing the awarenesses, the outcomes, the excitement about what was already rippling out to the students and lives they were going to continue to teach and inspire.

What I learned was simple and profound. It’s not head versus heart. It’s humility. Their willingness to step out of the mind and trust the body is what allowed something real to move.

That takes courage. And that, more than anything, is what these women taught me. Their Torah is a Torat Chaim. A Torah of life; not just ideas.

So it feels almost small to talk about opening registration for Ignite today. In the presence of such holy women, what is Ignite really?

It’s not a Torah class, though it's sourced in Torah. It’s not meant to replace teachers like the women I just spent three days with. It exists because for so many of us, something essential has been missing in the transmission.

Those women carry worlds of learning. But what moved me most was not what they knew. It’s how they live it. How fully at home they are in their bodies. How much permission they give simply by being who they are.

Ignite is a path for the woman who is ready to meet that same wholeness inside herself. To move from silence or confusion around femininity and sexuality into ease, love, and embodied knowing. To stop outsourcing authority about her body, her desire, her rhythms, and instead become fluent in her own feminine wisdom.

My deepest hope is that this course becomes obsolete by the time our daughters are women. That they will not need to go searching for what we had to reclaim. That they will learn it at home. From us. From mothers who trust their bodies and transmit feminine wisdom without shame or strain.

The women I met last week are proof of what’s possible when Torah is lived, not just learned. Ignite is my small contribution to that same lineage. Not to create experts, but to return women to themselves.

Ignite begins the evening of January 10. Early registration is open for just three days during Chanukah. Between now and Wednesday night, you’re invited to step into this arc of becoming. To join a generation of women who are no longer waiting, who are finally ready to step in.

Registering now gives you two opportunities:

• Use the code SHARE for a 97 dollar discount.
• In addition, your Ignite playbook will be shipped to your door in time for our first module. (US only.)

This is how lineages are built.
Quietly. Bravely. Woman to woman.

If you’ve taken Ignite before, you’re already in, free of charge. Invite two women you love to join us and your playbook (and surprise) are on me!

If you're choosing to register last minute, we'll still be happy to have you, but no guarantees that your playbook will arrive on time. 

This years' cohort is limited to 61 seats. We're an interactive community and we're aiming to keep the space intimate. Consider this your personal invitation to claim your seat!