_edited_edited_p.png){kind=small}
Imagine a life lived as it was meant...
Imagine sharing that journey...
and bringing sacred spirituality into every step of life...
Chaye Sarah
A Playground for our Souls
"...after a person has lived a life of virtue, followed the paths of righteousness,
and left the world while still righteous, his body is compared to Sarah in its perfection."
- Zohar 1:115a
UPCOMING
EVENTS
Spirituality isn’t meant to stay in the synagogue or on the holidays — it’s meant to flow into our everyday lives.
It’s in the way we speak to someone in the grocery line, the way we pause before rushing into our day, the gratitude we bring to a meal. Every ordinary moment is an invitation to connect with Hashem.
When we infuse spirituality into the small things, life itself becomes holy. And that changes everything.
Join us for Everyday Holiness, a series based on Mesillat Yesharim, the premier work on spiritual and character development.
"Chaye Sarah has helped me to connect to Hashem through fun and meaningful activities. I've found community, inspiration and a deeper sense of spirituality." - SH
FEATURED
WRITINGS
Text, inspiration, poetry and thoughts.
​
A collection of Torah based pieces shared by our most talented authors.
​
Immerse yourself in their words...
"Writing for Chaye Sarah has allowed me to reflect on how our connection to Hashem is central to everything we encounter in our lives as women." - AC
Click on the title image to read the full piece
SHABBAT VIGNETTES
A woman's day to shine!
Enhance your Shabbat and ignite your soul.
​A most elegant property of fire is its ability to climb to great heights. It stretches and reaches upwards as it extends past its origin and beyond itself into a world beyond.
Shabbat is the day which extends past the boundaries of the mundane and the ordinary to become the point in time of heightened spirituality, a taste of the world beyond.
Women naturally embody a sensitivity to, and appreciation of, G-d and spirituality. We very often reach in to a spiritual place within and pull out insight of the world beyond.
When we light the candles week after week it is only fitting it is we women who usher in the holiest of days. Our worlds collide in this one display of tradition and faith, of pride and sublimation. A spiritual being, a spiritual element and a spiritual time converging to reach the sanctity of the world beyond, together.
To nourish is the most instinctual of female qualities, to nurture a part of our DNA. When baking bread we nourish our families with far more than just nutrients. When taking “challah” and offering the portion to G-d, we infuse our bread with sparks of holiness, spiritual nourishment for our souls.
Sifting and measuring and kneading .. as we knead the dough we prepare to keep the first of the mitzvot given to women.
Wheat, a most earthly ingredient, and water, which is compared to Torah, combine to create a cohesive, singular entity. It is of this entity we offer to G-d, before we take for ourselves.
Rolling and baking and eating .. as we partake of this blessed bread, we feed our bodies as we nourish our souls.
Today, may we take challah as we bake challah, and this Shabbat, may we enjoy the physical and spiritual nourishment of this consecrated bread.
Somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness, between this world and that, our soul is returned, our consciousness awakened, and we open our eyes. Body and soul united once again.
It is in this moment we utter the first words of the day, words from a place beyond intellect, beyond emotion, a place of essence, spanning time and realities to frame what is to come.
Modeh Ani.
This state, this closeness, this source of spirituality is as on Shabbat as well. Just as our day to come is determined by our mornings, our weekdays are determined by our Shabbats. Just as our morning frames our day, Shabbat frames our week. The morning, Shabbat, they are the source, the beginning of what follows.
This Shabbat, may we be blessed with beautiful beginnings, and may all that follows be just as meaningful.