Website: www.TranscendingJewishTrauma.com
A resource for addressing the collective ancestral trauma of assimilated, white Ashkenazi Jews living in the U.S., with the intention of healing and transforming our Jewish institutions, organizations, congregations, and communities.
The tools themselves do not heal. The healing comes through our exploration of the trauma we’ve experienced, the trauma we’ve inherited, and the ways we enact this suffering on ourselves and one another as a result. And the healing comes through our commitment to envision and practice ways of existing beyond oppression, transcending our suffering, and embodying liberation.
Podcast: Jewish Ancestral Healing Podcast Episode #13
An exploration of inherited Ancestral trauma and whiteness
Article: Jo Kent katz on the Continuing Impact of Ancestral Trauma
“When we white, assimilated Ashkenazi Jews here in the U.S. miss or dismiss the ways we’ve been shaped by our inherited trauma, we can lose track of who is threatened and who is threatening. We can project all of the terror and rage we carry from inherited experiences of violence onto the current moment without realizing it. In doing so, we run the risk of holding Palestinians responsible for the full breadth of our fear and suffering. And we deny the reality of the Occupation, unable or unwilling to imagine that Jews, with such a deep history of oppression, are able to commit human rights violations.”
Podcast: DEI-LABB Podcast Episode #45
A discussion addressing impacts of Ancestral trauma, whiteness in Jewish community, and resistance to Palestinian solidarity for assimilated white Ashkenazi Jews.
Video: A channeled offering made for Jewish Studio Project’s Creative Rest
An of an offering of channeled wisdom addressing the risk, trust, and wisdom of leaning back into our Ancestor and allowing ourselves to be held.
“The Mourners Kaddish is a spell of collective realignment.
When someone transitions, from life to death, without proper spiritual tending, they are more likely to leave behind their own unresolved trauma to be metabolized by their descendants. In other words, when a death is not spiritually tended, the unhealed pain of the person who died is more likely to be absorbed -emotionally, physically, and energetically- by their descendants.
According to the channel, the roles that we play in perpetuating institutional oppression and in the devastation of our planet are, in large part, our unconscious attempts to relieve ourselves of this inherited trauma, of this pain. But inflicting suffering on human beings, or abusing our planet, does NOT relieve or release inherited pain, and does not soothe the betrayal of a death untended.
This is where the Mourner's Kaddish comes in.”
