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ReTreat Yourself! Bein Kodesh LeChol – Music, Mindfulness, Movement, and Marshmallows
November 7 @ 2:00 pm – November 9 @ 12:00 pm
A Retreat for Jewish Communal Professionals
Forge meaningful relationships with colleagues in your region while engaging with powerful religious and spiritual practice and Jewish learning. We will practice yoga, sing niggunim, and enjoy being outdoors.
Step into a palace in time with other Jewish communal professionals from your region. Celebrate a spiritual, meaningful, relaxing Shabbat full of rest, movement, and singing in an idyllic setting.
Participants will emerge with a broader network of friends and allies in the field, new Jewish wisdom sources for inspiration, and renewed motivation, passion, and commitment to their work. We will talk, sing, pray, move our bodies indoors and outside, eat delicious food, rest, laugh, and reflect.
Event Details
Friday, November 7 – Sunday, November 9, 2025
Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD 21136
This retreat experience is fully funded for eligible participants! A $180 fully refundable deposit is required to demonstrate your commitment. Travel expenses to/from the retreat are not covered.
Eligibility for these retreats require participants to have been working full time in Jewish communal service for 2+ years, and in their current role for 6+ months.
For more information, please reach out to Eliezah Hoffman, the Immersive Retreats Project Manager, at eliezah.hoffman@adamah.org or 410.843.7548.
This event is part of the ReTreat Yourself! event series. If these dates don’t work for you, view other upcoming retreats here.
Guest Educator
Rabbi Yosef Goldman is a leading facilitator, educator, and practitioner of Jewish communal music. He partners with congregations and clergy, supporting them in cultivating vibrant prayer and fostering musical-spiritual creativity. His work is shaped by his extensive rabbinic experience in chaplaincy, spiritual counseling, education, and senior congregational leadership.
As a composer, performer, and ritual artist, Yosef blends ancient devotional music from his Mizrahi and Ashkenazi heritage with contemporary American and Israeli Jewish traditions to inspire healing, connection, and social change. He has released two acclaimed albums—Open My Heart (2019) and Abitah (2023)—through Rising Song Records, with his music sung in communities and camps across the U.S. and Israel. A sought-after vocalist and collaborator, Yosef has contributed to dozens of albums spanning the Jewish music landscape, including as a longtime member of the Hadar Ensemble, led by Joey Weisenberg. In 2018-19, Yosef was selected for the Kimmel Center’s Jazz Residency alongside klezmer trombonist Dan Blacksberg. In 2024 he was featured in the sold-out Jewish Heritage Month concert at the Kennedy Center in DC, co-presented by the Weitzman Museum of American History and The Recording Academy, of which he is a voting member.
Since its inception, Yosef has served as senior advisor to Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, which nurtures Jewish spiritual life through song. His latest project, Kedmah, explores Mizrahi piyyut and sacred music, using ancient poetry and song to elevate the spiritual and artistic expression of Jews from Arab lands. Yosef lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Rabbi Annie Lewis, and their two children.
Guest Educator
Yael Shy is the Founder and CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC, where she supports individuals and collectives through well-being practices that uncover their inherent worth and capacity for deep joy. Current and former clients include New York University, Columbia School of Law, Procter and Gamble, UJA Federation, Hillel International, Etsy, and many more. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the country. Yael is faculty at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Fox 5 News, and CBS and in Time Magazine and the Harvard Business Review. She can be found online at http://www.yaelshy.com and @yaelshy1 on Instagram.
