ABOUT US
RACHEL LEAH WEIMAN
DIRECTOR
Rachel Leah Weiman is the Director of KavConnect Events Intl., kavconnect.com which coordinates events with the goal of 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. Through these retreats, shabbatons and seminars, she facilitates group bonding and authentic connection. ie emunah mission, Purim High Council, Kislev Event., Women Torah & Art
She is the director of the שער לנשמה / SHAAR L’NESHAMA School of Inner Torah & Jewish Meditation for Women based on Torah Sources. www.kavconnect.com/shaarlneshamaschool
Rochel Leah is the Director of the Maim Haim Healing Center Retreats for Women in Tzfat. www.kavconnect.com/maimhaim.
She served as the Director of the Elevation Project’s Teacher Training for Jewish Meditation www.teachelevation.com from 2018-2023:
Rochel Leah received certification in 2001 from the Elevation School for Teacher Training of Jewish Mediation directed by Rav Doniel Katz and serves as a Mentor / Mashpia for the Elevationproject.com.
She serves as the director of online and live Summits , including The RiseintoYour Crown Summit: Creativity & the Arts for Rising Jewish Woman.
In 2024, Rochel Leah received certification from the עלמיא Almaya School of Healing, directed by Rabbanit Tova Bazak, on Jewish Meditation, chassidut and psychology, based Tzfat and the אור פשוט בית מדרש נשי Ohr Pashut Bat Medrash for Women in Tzfat directed, Rabbanit Devorah Benyamin.
Rachel Leah integrates her knowledge of Torah into her art background and nurtures the creative mind. She established EmunahArt: Trusting Our Creative Self to develop an awareness and appreciation for our emunah-inspired creativity, encouraging women to discover and express their own unique sparks and mission (yeud) in this world.
Rochel Leah received her BFA from The Cooper Union. Her photographs have been exhibited in galleries in New York City. She served as Art Director and UX Design Director for companies in NYC, including BHPhoto, the Orthodox Union, and YU. She made aliya in 2021 and lives in Tzfat. Contact: kavconnect@gmail.com
LIBA MARKSON
DIRECTOR
Liba Markson, will help facilitate your journey into true connection with yourself, H-shem, and others. Liba takes a passionate stand for women to fully become the person they came to this earth to be, which always leads to more money, better relationships, peaceful parenting, higher creativity, and deep self-love and acceptance.
No matter how hard the past has been, with Liba’s intuitive, nurturing support, women who have been struggling for years to find fulfillment, success, expression, health, wealth, love, and more become unrecognizable and unimaginable to their previous selves.
Having someone connect with your soul and hold you to its highest vision, while nurturing and refining your desires, healing and transforming your human experience, with deep honesty, responsibility, and passion, especially when you waiver and vacillate, is what Liba offers with her warm and wise presence and coaching.
Liba has been totally engaged with self-development, human potential, and holistic health for as long as she can remember. In addition to being a writer and editor, she’s been transforming women’s lives individually and in groups for almost 10 years (truthfully most of her life). She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lived up and down the East Coast of the U.S. until she made Aliyah 16 years ago with her husband and children.
“I truly believe in us women, individually and collectively, and the power of the feminine to heal our world and bring the geula. And that those of us alive today are here for a high, holy purpose. We’re meant for great things. The challenges and crises we face on a daily basis are calling forth our gifts and genius and forcing us to dig deeper, reach further, and step into our power in a completely unprecedented way. We need to do this work and we need each other.
BS”D
KAVCONNECT INTL.
KavConnect Intl. takes a thoughtful and inner approach to develop memorable experiences that create deep connections, conversations, and shareable moments.
KavConnect Int specializes in producing innovative events and informative sites with a Torah-driven creative approach. Through its deep experience and countless productions, we understand that to truly engage a person, ideas must be fully integrated on a personal level. Our creative team comes up with an ambitious concept, discovers an aligned space with your mission, we make it happen — and the individual attendees will leave inspired.
What is KAV קו ?
Torah obtains its power from KAV / A New Light
The Torah is called a cure for the soul. Where does the Torah obtain its power? Since it preceded the creation of the worlds, a new light KAV is drawn down through it which is above the system of the worlds.
What does “a new light” mean? The origin of the for worlds of Atzilut / Emanation, Beriah /Creation, Yetzirah / Formation, Asiyah / Action was the light ray / KAV which emerged from the great withdrawal.
Everything which later appeared from this radiated KAV is not a new light, but merely comes into view from a hitherto concealed state within the primal KAV.
New light is entirely different. It descends from the Essence of the Infinite Light, which is “above” the space vacated by the great withdrawal and contraction (tzimtzum) and the subsequently radiated KAV. Consequently the Midrash said of Torah learning, “Every day it should be considered as new.”
Holiday Maamarim, The Lubavitcher Rebbes
A Kav / LINE / קו will extend from his heart to the Heavenly throne where there is no judgement
The Ramchal, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto teaches that one who strengthens himself with קיווי /HOPE will merit a קו / LINE will extend from his heart to the Heavenly throne where there is no judgement ... When we strengthen ourselves with bitachon / fatih and hope, we can picture as if a צנור / pipe is coming out of our heart and extending all the way to the highest place in heaven. And through the pipe, boundless blessings flow forth onto us.
-The Secret to Miraculous Salvations
Kav represents the line of Hashem allowing for the infinite Light to come down.
Kav represents the infinite light of Hashem coming into the world where men’s neshamos (souls) come from. Where H-shem doesn’t want this world to just be physical and reveal the finite part of Him... but to also be able to reveal His Infinite self. When we go beyond our comfort zones and connect with our neshama thats infinite and one with H-shem, we tap into the infinite part of us & reveal Him in the world. Through the struggles and choosing H-shem with Torah and mitzvos we draw Hashem down in the world. Kav represents the line of Hashem allowing for the infinite Light to come down.
-Nechama Dina Leeds
KAV: the Line Leading OUT of the Circle
BY REBBETZIN TAMAR TABACK
Once we grab onto the rope, the kav, the line leading out of the circle, we enter into a new world. Just outside the circumscribed space that was the scene of Hashem’s tzimtzum and set the stage for reality to unfold still exists His infinite Light. By grabbing onto the line of Torah, up and over into the realm of above the sun, we encounter another circle. It is a taste of the world to come, a circle consciousness that is dripping slowly but surely into our beings as we approach the end of the six thousand years culminating with the arrival of Moshiach.
Once we poke our heads above the clouds of the tricky illusions that seem so real, we are once again surrounded, this time, not by “Mother” nature, but by G-d Nature.
We have stepped out of our homes of brick and mortar and find ourselves in a Sukka.
The Zohar says that the Sukka is none other than Hashem’s embrace. It encircles us on all sides and becomes the new normal for the period of the 7/8 days of Sukkos.[4] Chassidic texts describe the infinite expanse outside of the circle that demarcates our physical world as the aspect of Hashem that is called סובב כל העלמין – the One who encircles all of creation[5]. This is the “ס” at the end of Sefer Koheles, written in big, “The sum total of it all. Fear G-d!”Grab onto the line that He has cast you and pull yourself up and over. Hashem’s embrace is the most eternal love of all.
~Hevel. Vanity of vanities.
This is a “schedule 6” remedy for the soul. Shlomo Hamelech speaks with accuracy what we would rather not admit to be the state of our human psyches without Torah. It jump-starts us to contemplate the true nature of our lives and our strivings.
When we find the kav, the line, the ray of Light coming from the outside of the circle penetrating inside, we step into the reality that only what is above the sun is real, only the Sukka is real, only Hashem’s love is real. And that, indeed, makes us very, very happy. Our sages couldn’t have chosen a better time to read the book of Koheles. It is hard to understand this with our minds only. But to our soul, it makes perfect sense.
Painting: Susan Gruen, Meditative Painting @Rectification of Feminine Consciousness Workshop July 2018 Luninessence