October 30, 2024 Tamid of Hebrew College Adult Learning GROW Series: October 30, 2024

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Join us again this academic year for Tamid of Hebrew College Adult Learning’s free, monthly GROW series.  For our third program, we will examine “When Arguing Works, It Hurts, and How to Tell the Difference”. We hope you will spend an hour with us for this and future programs in our series, to gather, reflect, observe, and wrestle with topics that will deepen your Jewish learning.

Program: “When Arguing Works, When it Hurts, and How to Tell the Difference”
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | 12-1 PM/9-10 AM PST | Zoom
Instructor: Rabbi Natan Margalit
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In our times of polarization and social fragmentation, we are searching for ways to disagree productively and respectfully. In this we have much that we can learn from the classic Jewish sources ranging from the Talmud to Hasidic mysticism. In this session we’ll explore some examples and discuss how we can apply Jewish insights into our own lives.

Our Instructor

Natan Margalit is the author of The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking. He was ordained in Jerusalem in 1990 and earned a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, 2001. He has taught at Bard College, RRC, and Hebrew College Rabbinical School.

Natan is currently Interim Dean of Faculty and chair of the Rabbinic texts Department at the Aleph Ordination Program. He is also Director of AOP’s Earth-Based Judaism program and founder of the non-profit Organic Torah. He lives in Newton, MA with his wife, two sons and dog. 

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Future Free, Monthly GROW Programs

Program: Memory & Memory Enhancement in Medieval Ashkenaz
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | 12-1 PM/9-10 AM PST | Zoom
Instructor: Susan Einbinder
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Anyone who has crammed for an exam, or left home without whatever you vowed not to forget, has strategies for enhancing memory.  For Late Antique and medieval Jews, an excellent memory was as key to social status as religious authority, and Jewish emphasis on study encouraged the cultivation of memory.  Beginning with a survey of ancient memory enhancement practices, I look at some Jewish responses to the need to memorize and retain quantities of text. Where memory fell short, magic was also an option. Remarkably, elements of early Jewish memory magic survived into medieval Ashkenaz in the rituals that marked a Jewish boy’s first day of school.  What might the persistence of these rituals in Jewish life tell us about Jewish attitudes toward learning and how they may differ from modern emphases?

Program: “Kabbalah, Darkness, and Light — Hanukkah’s Season of Balanced Hope”
Date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | 12-1 PM/9-10 AM PST | Zoom
Instructor: Yaakov Ginsberg-Schreck
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As far back as the Garden of Eden, we humans have feared the dark and yearned for periods of light. This Hanukkah season, for our people’s ancient winter solstice celebration, what darkness are we being asked to release in order to rededicate our lives and communities in the light of eternal hope?

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