Spiritual Mentoring

Questing for clarity?  Needing healing?

Yearning for Spirit? Seeking Authentic Judaism?

I support your soul discovery journey, weaving Spiritual Direction, Nature-Connection Mentoring and Healing Ceremony to help you cultivate wholeness, and awaken your relationship to Spirit.

  • Hashpa’ah (הַשְׁפָּעָה), known as “Spiritual Direction,” is the practice of spiritual encounter where you explore your relationship to the Sacred. Together we engage in sacred listening to meet your inner space and your inner voice to discover your living relationship to Spirit and what matters to you.

    I deploy a wide range of practices to help you deepen your relationship with God, Judaism, and your own soul, such as:

    • Meditation and Mindfulness practice

    • Learning and practicing prayer

    • Text Study (e.g. Torah, Chasidut, Jewish mysticism)

    • Niggunim (wordless melodies)

    • Grounding, embodiment practice, and energy awareness

    • Sacred Conversation

    People come to Hashpa’ah because something is calling you — perhaps a yearning, a void, or some new emergence.

  • Nature Connection Mentoring assumes that we thrive when we are authentically connected to nature, people, and our own essence. Are you exhausted from feeling disconnected from the most meaningful aspects of life? This journey guides you to develop your direct relationship to nature, the Sacred, and ultimately your true self.

    I deploy a wide range of practices to help you deepen your relationship to nature, Spirit, and yourself, such as:

    • Hitbodedut (“giving yourself solitude”)

    • Sensory Meditation & nature-based mindfulness tools

    • Ancestral skills (e.g., sacred fire tending)

    • Bird Language

    • Native plants for medicine and wild foods

    • Nature-centered Jewish text study and story

    • Nature-based challenges that expand your horizons

  • Ceremony helps us connect with energies beyond our daily experience, release unhelpful patterns, gain needed insight, and cultivate our wholeness.

    I offer a variety of ceremonial opportunities that I customize for your healing needs, including:

    Sacred Fire: Sacred fire provides a potent portal for releasing outdated energies, making offerings to Spirit, praying for help, and connecting to our ancestors.

    Mikveh: Ritual immersion in living water provides a potent way to cleanse unwanted energy and mark important life thresholds.

    Wilderness Solo: Hitbodedut (“embracing solitude”) is one of the most ancient Jewish rites. Like our ancestors, in wild solitude we can connect directly to the earth and Source, heal wounds, recover wildness, and find new direction.

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Immersive Retreats

I offer immersive retreats hosted in the wilderness and at our sanctuary, the ‘Golden Nest,’ in Occidental, CA (near the Sonoma Coast). Day-long and multi-day retreats support you to unplug, power-down, immerse in nature, and receive the medicine and support you need to take your spiritual journey to the next level.

Consult with me for your customized retreat: Click here to schedule a Discovery Call

Why Spiritual Mentoring with Rabbi Zelig?

🦋 Return to Your Inner Wisdom

Spiritual mentoring is for those moments when something deeper stirs—a quiet call for healing, guidance through transition, or a longing for clarity and purpose. I’m here to help you reconnect with the wisdom already within you.

🔥 Align with Your Soul’s Calling

Drawing on ancient Jewish wisdom, earth-based ritual, and decades of spiritual leadership, I support you in aligning with your soul’s path—so you can move forward with clarity, courage, and connection.

✡️ Reconnect to a Living Judaism

I help you cultivate a relationship with Judaism that is alive, authentic, and rooted in your lived experience. Together we explore ancient texts, spiritual practices, and rituals that nourish your connection to self, community, and the sacred

Testimonials

  • Rabbi Zelig has been a mentor and spiritual guide to me for over a decade. Under his guidance I've rooted into ancient Jewish traditions and grown my connection to the natural world and seasonal rhythms in ways that have brought me to life. With Reb Zelig as my guide on the earth-based Jewish path I've been led to a place of deep belonging, inside a culture of initiation. Participating in Reb Zelig's Jewish Men's Initiation catalyzed enormous, positive transformation for me - a massive turning point in my life.

    Josh “Ooah” Reitzenstein, Reitz of Passage

  • Rabbi Zelig is a spiritual guide whose wisdom flows like living waters—clear, deep, and ever-renewing. When I was a young adult searching for my place within Jewish life, Zelig saw a spark within me long before I did. With unwavering honesty, compassionate presence, and a broad spiritual toolbox, he guided me toward my authentic voice, and encouraged me to embrace my leadership rooted in integrity, vulnerability, and purpose.

    Rabbi Ariel Wolpe, Spiritual Leader Ma’alot

  • Zelig’s insight and perspective have continually supported me in deepening my understanding of myself and expanding my sense of what’s possible. He is a man who hears inner guidance and is courageous to follow it with his life. His gift lies in weaving spirit with the wisdom traditions he embodies, complemented by his profound care. I have been continually amazed by his capacity to track me and see my journey close up, and from far away like an eagle. I’ll always cherish the night when I was in a very dark place, sitting alone by a fire, and he joined me, listened patiently, gave me council, sang songs with me, and helped me find peace.

    Jeff Roth

  • Over the years, Rabbi Zelig has been a profound spiritual guide for me in my life path and Jewish practice. He has guided me to deepen my connection to our nature based roots and has supported me with personal and spiritual growth through some of the darkest and most challenging times in my life. He is a knowledgeable rabbi, a humble man, and a beautiful spiritual teacher who holds space in a sacred and balanced way. I am honored to be in connection with him for so long.

    Daniel Farkas

  • Rabbi Zelig has a wisdom that's rooted not only in Jewish tradition but also in something deeper, more ancient. Zelig specializes in transmitting direct spiritual experience that isn’t cerebral or heady - something rare in contemporary spiritual landscapes. When I started working with Zelig I was in a bout of depression and directionless. I came out feeling strong and guided as I understood how to walk the path forward.

    Samuel Weingast

  • "I’ve been blessed to spend time with many spiritual teachers and mentors in my life, but few have been able to hold space for me to find my center in the unique way that Zelig does. His huge heart, fierce groundedness, deep insight, and compassionate authenticity have helped me begin to unlock my gifts and reconnect with my faith. What struck me right away was the grace with which he lives a balance between spiritual ideals and everyday family life. A highlight of our ongoing work was a 4-day ceremonial wilderness journey, where his guidance helped me connect to ancestral skills, nature's wisdom, prayer, and faith; with a few raucous laughs to boot. This guy is really doin’ it, and his sharp mind allows him to communicate it intelligently. I feel profoundly grateful to be guided by his mentorship."

    Ian Bodaken