Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Wise Aging

2016

$100,000

Jewish tradition has much to say about aging and aging well. The challenge is making this knowledge accessible and relevant today. To do this, RPF helped launch Wise Aging, a program that combines the best of Jewish thought and the latest research on how to age with meaning and purpose. Since 2014, the initiative has published a Wise Aging guide; held numerous events; and trained hundreds of group leaders, who in turn lead Wise Aging groups in cities across the country, reaching thousands of people. This grant helped make it possible for Wise Aging to launch in new cities so that more Jews in their 60s, 70s, and beyond can follow the words of Psalms: “Teach us to live all of our days so that we may obtain a heart of wisdom.”