MANNA ✺ Pilgrimage

✺ M A N N A ✺  

Pilgrimage Festival and Jewish Culture Gathering

M A N N A is an intergenerational and pluralistic gathering with an emphasis on emergence and creative expression. 

A 4-day campout in the California wilderness during the ancient pilgrimage festival of Passover/ Pesach.

Learn more about M A N N A by reading the Participation Guide.

With your ticket you will be gaining full access to M A N N A:

• A beautiful, privately stewarded site in the ancestral (and present day) homeland of the Chumash people. Shade trees, grassy hills, a large meadow and walking access to a seasonal creek and hiking trails
• Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah rituals for the whole village - incorporating music, wisdom teachings, embodiment and beauty way
• Community led offerings, themed camps, sacred fire, wild & playful happenings, time for rest and integration, deepening in relationship
• Bathrooms, drinking water and safety team will be provided
• Access to the M A N N A Cafe selling delicious, handmade dinner and snacks/coffee/tea Friday-Sunday

We are NOT providing:

• A programmatic arc designed to create a coherent, unified experience 
• Entertainment
• Childcare

**UPDATE: Adult ticket prices will be raised to $275/adult starting Monday, 4/15**

MANNA is inspired by Wilderness Torah’s Passover in the Desert but is not being produced by WT.

This is a grass-roots event being organized as a labor of love with the inspiration and hope that participants will bring their beautiful, creative impulses and share them generously. We are receiving very little outside funding, our financial model is to provide a low-cost ticket and to cover most of our budget through ticket sales. If you have the financial capacity to pay at a higher rate and support our artist/scholarship fund that would be amazing! 💜 Ariella and Daniel

Other helpful M A N N A links:

• Community Agreements
• FAQ’s
• Waiver
• Prayer & Statement

PLEASE READ 

At M A N N A participants are encouraged to organize themselves into camps or Ma’ayanot (wellsprings). 

These camps become community generated nodes where intimacy and innovation thrive. 

The idea is that each Ma’ayan is a self-organized camping area, participants decide how to share kitchen and shade infrastructure (communally sourced). 

Participants bring their combined creativity to the table and create offerings for the ‘public’. Offerings might look like workshops, contemplative space, devotional prayer, art installations, dance parties, tea time, grief circles, Torah study, etc. Each camp creates their own schedule for their offerings and shares their schedule on the communications board in the central gathering tent. 

Participants can create their own Ma’ayanot, join one of the camps we are organizing, or come as you are and camp without being a part of a Ma’ayanot/themed camp. 

The Ma’ayanot that we are organizing this year are:   

• Tiferet (Beauty - The Living Fire) - A place to practice sacred relationship with fire, weaving together ancient traditions and emergent rituals. We hold this beauty making fire space as the village heart, where connection to spirit and community come alive. By signing up for this camp you are agreeing to help tend the fire, a privilege and an honor!
• Grove of Elders - For those exploring their role in community as Elders, where memory, vision and mentoring are cultivated. An intergenerational place for those who wish to be close to the wisdom of the Grove. Also, an area where a van or RV can be easily parked.
• Zimrat HaAretz (Songs of the Earth) - A camp for musicians, dancers, those who love to improvise, those who are classically trained, and anyone who wishes to feed the altar of music. We see this camp as a great place to host jams, song circles, Jewish music teachings and anything else that participants are inspired to share.

The deep grief of this time is not lost upon us... Trying to grasp the reality of the violent war on Gaza, Hamas' attack on Israel & the immense suffering that is taking place across Palestine & Israel is unfathomable. We stand with calls for immediate and sustained ceasefire and for all hostages, Israeli and Palestinian, to be released. We are alarmed by the rise of anti-semitism across this world, and recognize how terrifying and familiar this is for Jewish people.We do not claim to have ANY answers, even as co-organizers we have differing views of this crisis and how to respond. 

We are here for this moment in our Passover story- going out into the unfamiliar territory beyond the confines of our habitual thoughts and reactions, we are here to support the coming together of human beings, in all our brokenness, confusion, fear, anger, grief, pain... and also in our joy, celebration, emergent creation, healing and change.

We look forward to celebrating, grieving, dancing, singing, creating and ritualizing with you.

Please direct any questions to mannapilgrimage@gmail.com