Join Cantor Rabbi Rob Jury for an engaging and illuminating conversation with Veriditas Founder Lauren Artress as they explore the deep roots and rich symbolism of the labyrinth within Jewish tradition. From illuminated manuscripts to Kabbalistic cosmology, the labyrinth appears in surprising ways—echoing stories such as the fall of Jericho and the journey from Passover to Revelation. Rabbi Rob will reveal how the labyrinth is not only compatible with Judaism—but deeply resonant with its stories, symbols, and sacred cycles.
Drawing from his work as founder and Clinical Director of the Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery and Healing, Rabbi Rob shares how he integrates the labyrinth into Jewish spiritual practice, community worship, and addiction recovery. As an Advanced Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator, he offers powerful examples of labyrinth use in new moon ceremonies, the seven-week Omer journey, and 12-step recovery walks—each woven with spiritual meaning and sacred intent.
Register to join us live on Zoom on Monday, June 30th at 4pm Pacific, or receive a recording link to watch at your convenience. VIA Members can enroll for free and will also receive exclusive access to a special half-hour Q&A with Rabbi Rob and Lauren following the session.
Cantor Rabbi Rob Jury, Ph.D., LCPC (IL), LPC (CT), ACS, BCC, NCC
Cantor Rabbi Rob Jury is the Spiritual Leader at Congregation Anshe Tikvah and the Clinical Director at the Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery and Healing in Northbook, Illinois. Rob is a Core Faculty Clinical Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Counseling@Northwestern program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. He has a graduate certificate in Jewish Leadership from a joint program of Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning & Leadership and Northwestern University, a graduate certificate in Trauma Informed Counseling and a graduate certificate in Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Education from Northern Illinois University. He completed training in the use of the Mandala Assessment Research Instrument (MARI).
Rob is a Veriditas Advanced Trained and Certified Labyrinth Facilitator with experience facilitating the therapeutic use of labyrinths in inpatient, residential, and outpatient treatment of substance use disorders. Rob’s approach to supervision is grounded in narrative practices and rooted in traditions of rabbinic counseling. These practices include a belief that people have the skills and capabilities to change their relationship with a problem so that it no longer dominates their life. Rob collaborates with people in recovery on re-telling the story of their strengths and resiliency to make it easier to access their skills and capabilities.
Rob’s clinical counseling experience is with mental health disorders, patients recovering from injury or illness, patients recovering from substance use disorders and non-substance related addictions, marriage and family counseling, survivors of religious and spiritual trauma, and people looking to integrate religion and/or spirituality into their counseling sessions.
For additional biographical information see:
https://counseling.northwestern.edu/counseling/leadership-faculty/rob-jury/
