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Inspired by the Counting of the Omer, Mitsui Collective is producing daily seven minute wellness practices, taking inspiration from the mystical framework of the Sefirot (divine qualities), featuring regular guest contributions from a diverse array of Jewish professionals, teachers, and wellness practitioners.
Learning with different people alters and impacts the learning experience for each of you, both in relation to learning on your own and also to what the learning would be with someone else. What does it mean to purposefully learn in partnership, aka in chevruta, and what does this have to do with Jewish movement practices?
![We did it! It’s day 49, the final day of Omer before the holiday of Shavuot during which we commemorate receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai and one of three ancient pilgrimage festivals to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Today’s practice of Malkhut within Malkhut — groundedness within sovereignty — calls to us in one framing the mindset of the monarch or priest in preparation for their ordination ceremony and celebration the following day; and in another framing the final preparations before setting off on a journey of revelation (even or especially if that journey is within). 💥
So in preparation for the journey that is Shavuot, we’ll mirror the motions of preparing for an expedition. It’s important to note that this is no solo expedition. It’s a journey meant to be completed in chevruta, in partnership, in community. So whether they are physically proximate to you, connected on Zoom, or perhaps not even human (furry companions and nature both make great chevruta partners), we suggest you give some real thought to who and how you’re able to be in chevruta with for this final practice.
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What you do to celebrate Shavuot is totally up to you — and we do plan to offer some suggestions for embodied practice during this time. It may be the traditional route, it may be something completely alternative, it may be short, it may all day long. We encourage you to view this opportunity to be in chevruta and go exploring for some Torah, be that literally in the text or out in the world seeking place-based Torah in unexpected places.
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