Cultivating the spiritual practice of emotional intelligence with Yiscah Smith Yiscah Smith shares a teaching from the Piaseczner Rebbe, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, (d. 1943, Poland). The text, from his volume on spiritual practice Bnei Machshava Tova, discusses the importance of becoming more aware of our inner emotional landscape. The Piaseczner views each emotion as a key to our spiritual center — our soul. This sacred practice opens us up to our inherent spiritual nature, awakening to the Divine within us and integrating this awareness into holistic mind, body, heart and soul experiences in our lives. This leads to inner unity—and beyond with others. Her talk will be anchored, at the beginning and end, by short periods of contemplative silence.