“What brought me to study at Pardes is my desire to delve into the texts of the
tradition and to go deeper in my understanding of my Jewish identity and the
distant roots of my ancestors. I wanted to appease my inextinguishable thirst
for Torah, to live better in the midst of the upheavals the world is actually going
through.
“From an early age, I have always been bothered by the way I could contribute to
the tikkun olam. Pardes is the place that gave me the tools to think better, to
channel and to re-affirm how I can embody my part of the Torah as an artist
and as a therapist.
“The experience of Pardes matches with my expectations as the environment allows
me to integrate Torah values, in such a way that I grow in life-process and
in organic time. It’s been a while since I was a student at school! I would say that this
time is the “real school” I wish I had studied at before. The school
where I learn how to be a better human being, a real actor of life and not a
consumer, in which the society want us to be typecast…”
Malka
Râsoma comes from Paris (France). She is dancer-choreographer & dance therapist. She is the artistic director of BARE Centre of Experimental for Movement. Over the last decade, she focused her research-creation on adapting Jewish texts within a choreographic notation for stage crafts. As dance-therapist, she leads workshops and private sessions to empower women by connecting body consciousness & language as a means of self-transformation & action.
