Monterey Museum of Art on Pacific Street presents a lecture by Rabbi Leach Novick, The Art of the Jewish Prayer Shawl, on Monday, May 14, 1pm-2pm. Visitors are welcome to bring food and drinks during this lunchtime lecture series. Event is free with museum admission.

Today, Rabbi Leah Novick shares how women are transforming the art of the Jewish prayer shawl. Novick is a spiritual teacher whose teaching and research has been focused on the Divine Feminine, referred to as “Shekhinah” in Judaism, for the last two decades. She has also written biographies of Jewish women saints, which have been integrated into a theatre piece performed with her advanced students.