Awaken RETREATSin theHoly City of Tzfat


🔲⁠⁠DANCE BEYOND LIMITS with Gitty Porgesz

🔲 EXPERIENTIAL ART with Sheva Chaya

🔲 YOGA with Raayah

🔲 TEA & LEARNING BITACHON @Beit Binyamin with Jen Airley

🔲 TORAH with Rabbanit Devorah Benyamin

🔲 TORAH with Emunah Witt 

🔲 MEDITATION Rochel Leah Weiman

🔲 HOLISTIC HEALING with Maskit Ben-Moshe

🔲 ⁠MUSICAL KABBALAT SHABBAT with Rivka Leah Lowenthal

🔲 ⁠⁠MUSICAL ROSH CHODESH HALLEL with TEHILLA! & Israeli Tzfat women

🔲 SHABBAT MEALS with Circles of Giving



SAMPLE SCHEDULE

Thursday March 27 

  • 6 pm Arrive 

  • 6:30 pm Opening Circle with Sheva Chaya, Rochel Leah & RevivalTzfat Team

  • 7:30-9:30 pm Collaborative Workshop with Gitty & Sheva Chaya
    Dance Beyond Limits!: Finding Flow of Authenticity in Writing / Painting / Movement
    Connect to the potential inside and express your inner cycle of sprouting, blooming & bringing fruits

Friday March 28

  • 6:45-8:00 am Sunrise Davening, Learning & Tea with JEN AIRLEY (@at Beit Binyamin) Beit Yosef St 29
    Location: Beit Binyamin is across from the Ancient Tzfat Winery.

  • 8:30-9:30am Morning Yoga with Raayah (@theGallery)

  • 10-11:30am break (Breakfast @Bellas)
    OPTIONAL: SPA TIME! POOL Plus Yechidah Hollistic Healing Therapies: Facilatating energetic release & enhanced vitality בעיה; Combining reflexology acupressure, massage & shiatsu with Maskit Ben-Moshe
    Schedule your massage privately: 0523534065

  • 11:45-1:30 pm  Inner Torah Learning with Rabbanit Devorah Benyamin הרבנית דבורה בנימין (In Hebrew translated by Sheva Chaya) (@ttheGallery) “How we can see ourselves as if we have come out of Mitzraim?’: Experiential Work in Imagination - with the Piacezner Rebbi / 'חייב אדם לראות עצמו כאילו יצא ממצרים' התנסות בעבודה בדמיון עם הרבי מפייסצנה’

  • 1:30-3:30 pm  BREAK / Prepare for Shabbos
    OPTIONAL: SPA TIME! POOL Plus Yechidah Holistic Healing Therapies: Facilatating energetic release & enhanced vitality בעיה; Reflexology/massage / shiatsu with Maskit Ben-Moshe: Schedule your massage privately: 0523534065

  • 3:30-5 Art Workshop: Last song before Shabbos with Sheva Chaya

    5:00 pm Pre-Candlelighting Shabbat Meditation:
    Breathing in the Mochin (Mentality Consciousness) of Eretz Yisrael with Rochel Leah Weiman

  • 6:37 pm Candlelighting 

  • 6:45 pm Musical Kabbalat Shabbat @ Lowenthal Gallery Tet Vav St 35 with Rivka Leah Lowenthal

  • 8 pm Friday night Seuda @Sheva Chaya’s Gallery with Dvrei Torah by Emunah Witt

Shabbat HaChodesh March 29

  • 10am-1pm Tefilla @ Shul of your choice; ie. AQM Artist Quarter Minyan Tet Vav St 45, begins at 10 am.

  • 1 pm Lunch Seuda @Circles of Giving: Hativat Yiftach 29 (see map below: Walk up the stairs @Camelian on Jerusalem St. Circles of Giving is at the top)

  • Shabbat Rest

  • 5 pm Seuda Shelishit: Feel the blessing of your Tree within; Kol HaTur Nishma BArtzeinu with Sheva Chaya @Sheva Chaya’s Gallery

  • 8 pm Havdala

  • 9-10:45 pm Chodesh Tov! Melava Malka: Dance Beyond Limits with Gitty Porgesz

  • Closing Circle

Sunday March 30 Rosh Chodesh Nissan

  • 9:00am (optional) Meet @ the Gallery to bless the trees! 🌸AWAKEN to the Blessings of Blossoming Trees: Birchat Ha'ilanot and hike down through kevarim to the bottom of Tzfat where we with gather for Hallel

  • 10am Musical Hallel with Tehilla! & Tzfat Israeli women: Tehilla Dolonsky leads women’s groups in beautiful unifying inspiring songs, hallel and special occasions for women all over Israel. Location: (see add below) Talent! 1 Derech HaShokolad in the Industrial area of Tzfat

  • 1-2 pm    Gallery Tour: Inspirational Kabbalah & Art presentation with Tzfat artist Avraham Loewenthal

ROSH CHODESH HALLEL

KavConnect & RevivalTzfat leads women’s groups in beautiful unifying inspiring songs, hallel and special occasions for women.

#RevivalTzfat MISSION
Be a part of it!

• Recovering after the War and Re-establishing the North of Israel
• ⁠Healing for Am Yisrael & the World

REVIVAL TZFAT is bringing together communities, specifically the Hebrew-speaking and English-speaking communities in Tzfat, through meaningful and inspiring events and workshops. Workshops will be experiences of connection, creativity, healing, learning, singing, movement, dance, breathwork, celebration of the times, and more.  Find presence.  Find inspiration and expression.  Integrate and shine out to the world the light, healing and wisdom of Tzfat.  

*All of our efforts are for the zchut / merit of Am Yisrael, our soldiers, the return of our hostages, and the complete success of Am Yisrael to serve it’s purpose in the world, to bring H’s light.

Meet the Team

  • Gitty Porgesz

    DANCE BEYOND LIMITS

    Gitty is a Chassidic woman, oved Hashem, proud creative mother of 6 ke"h.

    Dancer , Choreographer and creative artist. She has created 9 original multi-faceted dance pieces since 2011 that performed in different professional festivals and dance venue's in Israel for women only. 

    Gitty loves to create and express movement that flows from within out as a pure connection to oneself and God ,to use that powerful movement to connect to each other -fellow women from all sectors of Klal yisroel and beyond - as soul sisters bridging beyond our differences. Empower each other and move closer in harmony. Gitty performs her creative dance and teaches Dance workshops in Yerushalayim, etc.

  • Sheva Chaya

    ART WORKSHOPS

    fter receiving her degree in Visual arts and Art History from Princeton University in 1997, Sheva Chaya made Aliyah to Tzfat, Israel, where the land, the people, and the rich tradition of spiritual teachings infused  a greater depth to her work.

    Sheva Chaya works in the medium of borosilicate glass and watercolor paint. Her art touches the themes of the Land of Israel, Jewish women, Torah and Kaballah, great mystics, and inner light. She leads various workshops and retreats, and teaches both painting and glassblowing.

    Her love of learning creating, healing, yoga, breathwork, and experiencing nature inspire many as her workshops integrate exalted creative and spiritual experiences into day-to-day life.

  • Rochel Leah Weiman

    TORAH & JEWISH MEDITATION

    Rochel Leah is the Director of KavConnect Events Intl., kavconnect.com, supporting women to discover their own unique gifts by learning Pnimius Torah combined with experiential practice, with a focus on the Torah from Eretz Yisrael since 2014. Through retreats, shabbatons, workshops and seminars, she facilitates group bonding and authentic connection.

    She is the director of Director, Shaar L'Neshama School of Inner Torah & Jewish Meditation for Women www.kavconnect.com/shaarlneshamaschool.  She was the Director of the Elevation Project’s Teacher Training for Jewish Meditation from 2018-2023. Rochel Leah can be reached at kavconnect@gmail.com

  • Jen Airley

    Jen, with her husband Rob and family made Aliyah from NY to Ramat bet Shemesh in 2006.

    The Airley family's lives have forever been changed and charged when the Ribono Shel Olam took their Binyamin to be with Him on ה' כסלו, November 18th, as he was fighting to defend our people and our land.

    Since then, Jen has been traveling, sharing their family's passionate love for Eretz Yisrael, Am Yisrael and Torat Eretz Yisrael. Together they also founded Beit Binyamin, a retreat center in Tzfat, aiming to give respite, recovery and rejuvenation to those directly affected by the war.
    Beitbinyamin.org

  • Rabbanit Devorah Benyamin

    Rabbanit Devorah Benyamin directs the אור פשוט בית מדרש נשי  Ohr Pashut Bat Medrash for Women in Tzfat.

  • Maskit Ben-Moshe / MASSAGE

    Yechidah Hollistic Healing Therapies
    Maskit will be facilitating energetic release & enhanced vitality בעיה; Combining reflexology acupressure, massage & shiatsu.

    CONTACT TO SCHEDULE YOUR MASSAGE: 0523534065

  • Raayah

    YOGA

    Raayah has been practicing and teaching yoga for many years, and is known for her grace and light.  Her classes inspire renewal, freshness, joy, and elegant strength.

  • Rebecca Lowenthal

    Rebecca Loewenthal has been leading Kabbalat Shabbat Tefilla for women and girls (and little kids coming with their mom’s). She loves to sing, dance, make art and craft that beautify and exemplify the Inner Lights of Torah and the world, connecting us to each other, to our true selves and to the One

  • Tehilla!

    Tehilla Dolonsky leads women’s groups in beautiful unifying inspiring songs, hallel and special occasions for women all over Israel.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

I cannot thank you enough for the incredible job you did in creating such a beautiful and relaxing retreat. Everything from the peaceful atmosphere to the amazing food and the thoughtfully designed workshops was truly exceptional.
–Sarah

The amount of effort and care the organizers put into every detail was so evident, and it allowed me to fully immerse myself in self-care. I left feeling refreshed, recharged, and more connected to myself. The experience gave me the space to hear my own thoughts, find serenity, and return home as a better mother, more present and energized for my family.
– Nechama Leah

It was truly an unforgettable experience, and I’m so grateful to you for making it happen!
–Miram H.

I can’t wait for next Rosh Chodesh in Tzfat!
–Esther Leah