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Elyssa Wortzman: Foraging for Manna 

Elyssa Wortzman is an artist, Jewish Spiritual Director and developer of award winning Jewish cultural programs. In Foraging For Manna, Wortzman explores a process at the nexus of art and spiritual direction, bringing awareness and meditation practices to the art-making process. Based on a Talmudic midrash explaining manna as the food that “draws out the heart”, Wortzman journeyed into the forest to forage for manna, spiritual sustenance that derives from the environment.  Using the map of Eden Village as the underlying image, Wortzman created a collection of mixed media works that document this process, exploring our footprint on the landscape and the landscape’s imprint on us. By bringing awareness to and cultivating trust in the environment, she could gather only what was needed (manna), developing an individual understanding of environmental sustainability.

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Wortzman also used her dance background and experience with Authentic Movement in Shira Dicker's Transcendental Trope Performance, which combined spontaneous movement, Torah reading and music.

As part of her research for her Doctorate of Ministry in Jewish Spiritual Direction (Graduate Theological Foundation) Wortzman is currently creating an arts-based embodied curriculum for spiritual growth for tweens and teens called JewSTU, which received a grant in the category of Innovation in 2012 from UJA’s Westchester Program Services Cabinet.

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  • Home
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      • Lincoln Center Film Festival
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      • NY Poetry Festival
      • Invisible Jew
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      • ARt, ARchitecture & AR: Augmented Reality & Jewish Art
      • Klezmer Aerobics
      • Interactive Poetry Presentation
      • Lost Sock Project 'Oneness'
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      • Shmita ArtFest
      • Seven Minutes Between Heaven and Earth
      • Shpiel Performing Arts Workshop
    • Rooted Exhibition
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    • Creative Family Circle
    • The Jewish Waltz with Planet Earth Exhibition
    • Shofar Flashmob
    • Drink'n'Draw
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      • Neshama Carlebach
      • Ronnit Vasserman
      • Ari Goldman
      • Goldie Gross
    • Artists 2017 >
      • Asherah Cinnamon
      • Ali Shrago-Spechler
      • Goldie Gross
      • Kobi Arad
      • Ronit Levin Delgado
      • Sky Kim
      • Oran Etkin
      • Natalie Jean
      • Shira Holder
      • Cecil Parker
      • Antonio Bamoozie
      • Shira Dicker
      • Deborah Kahan Kolb
      • Pinny Bulman
      • Jane Mushabac
      • Tamra Plotnick
      • Naftali Noah Lehrman
      • Raymond Richards-Mcnaught
      • Bobby Mcullough
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        • Judith Margolis
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        • Eugenia Delfini
        • Kevin Bernstein
        • Julian Voloj
        • Benjamin Melendez
        • Tamra Plotnick
        • Ayelet Danielle Aldouby
        • Pesya Altman
        • Deborah Yarchun
        • Kyo Young Keum
        • Pearl Gluck
        • Ella Moriah Mason
        • Lori Goldberg
        • Hillel Broder
        • Lenore Cohen
        • Debralynn Fein
        • Michal Berman
        • Jeremy Stoller
        • Sarah Sokolic
        • David Winitsky
        • Nicole Teeny
        • Malky Lipshitz
        • Melissa Weisz
        • Yishai Jesse Romanoff
        • Shira Holder
        • Hope Weiner
        • Michael Feder
        • Amy Oestreicher
        • Wannes Duponcheel
        • Nadia Randriamorasata
        • Jesse Freedman
        • Debra Epstein
        • Lev Ari
        • Aaron Moeller
        • Ali Shrago-Spechler
        • Raphael Rice
        • Anna Turai
        • Chavie Weisberger
        • Shira Dicker
        • Asherah Cinnamon
        • Daniel Brenner
        • Benjamin Melendez
        • Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat
        • Shaina Goldberg
        • Jennifer Rappaport
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        • The Gateway
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