Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Yoni Kadden (Read Bio) Dates: 3 Tuesdays, Winter 2025: 1/14, 1/21 & 1/28 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. EST Course fee: $120, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Course description:
When Jews began arriving in America at the turn of the 20th century they began voting with distinct and discernable patterns that lasted for the course of the next century. What were those patterns and how might we explain them? And since Black people were enfranchised in the years after the Civil War, they too have voted with distinct and discernable patterns. What were those patterns, how might we explain them? How have these patterns changed and how have they remained the same over the past century and a half? In what ways are the historical voting patterns of Jews like – and in what ways are they different from – Black people? This three-session course will examine these questions and will explore what lessons we might glean to help our understanding of how people have been voting in our most recent elections.
Whom Shall I Say is Calling?: Insights about the Name of God in Jewish Tradition
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Neal Gold (Read Bio) Dates: Tuesdays, Winter 2025: 1/7, 1/14, 1/21 & 1/28 Time: 10-11:30 a.m. EST Course fee: $160, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Jewish spiritual wisdom has put many names on the experience of encountering the divine. This course offers some unexpected insights from the Bible, rabbinic literature, and Kabbalah about what it means to give a name to the Transcendent: from the Torah’s ineffable four-letter Name to unusual metaphors, to the Kabbalists’ 72- (actually 216-) letter mystery, and beyond. This course will explore familiar and unfamiliar sources, with an emphasis on articulating and clarifying our own spiritual awareness.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Layah Lipsker (Read Bio) Dates: Monday and Thursday, Winter/Spring 2024-2025: 12/ 9, 12/12, 12/16, 12/19, 1/6, 1/9, 1/13, 1/16, 1/23, 1/27, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6, 2/10, 2/13 & 2/20 Time: 9-9:45 a.m. EST Course fee: $400, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Talmud study is not simply the study of Jewish law, and that’s why it is so fascinating to Jews of all affiliations. The rabbis often use the legalities as a language for articulating foundational Jewish wisdom. The stories and debates of the Talmud have become the language of Jewish thought. A page of Talmud can often help us tap into ancient Jewish language for our own spiritual growth and add to our toolbox of Jewish thought.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Mona Strick (Read Bio) Dates: 7 Thursdays, Fall 2024: 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5, 12/12 & 12/19 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. EST Course fee: $280, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and co-sponsored by The Boston Synagogue Registration:Click here
We will delve into contemporary ethics through a Jewish lens. As we study texts – traditional and modern to inform our conversation (and arguments) such as: Who is a Jew, Medical Ethics, Abortion and organ donation, Kashrut and eco- Kashrut, Jewish Identity and much more.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Jeffrey Amshalem (Read Bio) Dates: 8 Mondays, Fall 2024: 9/23, 10/7, 10/21, 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/16 & 1/6 Time: 7:15-8:45 p.m. EST Course fee: $280, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by Temple Sinai in Brookline Registration:Click here
In this course we’ll study recent archaeological and historical research about the interrelated origins of the Jewish people, the Torah, and what would come to be known as “Judaism,” and discuss their ramifications for our own identities and practices as 21st century Jews. The goals are for the learners to understand current theories about the development of the Jewish people as a self-identified nation and the narratives and laws — which would become the Tanakh — used to develop, maintain, and shape this identity. The class will include scholarly sources, in light of which we will study classical Jewish texts with an investigator’s eye to see how they align with the new scholarship.
Dreaming Together: Engaging in the Torah of Dreamwork
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Yael Linda Schiller (Read Bio) Dates: 6 Tuesdays, Fall 2024: 10/29, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3 & 12/10 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. ET Course fee: $240; financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Our history and tradition contain text and midrash about dreamers and visioners. The difference between these two is often whether the dreamer is sound asleep or in some state of wakefulness. We will explore this history of dreamwork in Torah, Talmud, and Kabbalah, learn a method of dreamwork based on the Pardes designed by the instructor, and then explore our dreams together in the safe container of a dream circle.
