Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Aron Wander (Read Bio) Dates: 10 Wednesdays, Fall 2024: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15 & 1/22 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. ET Course fee: $200* (Thanks to the generosity of CJP) Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
What resources does Judaism offer for cultivating joy, acting ethically, and finding meaning in a 21st-century world that can often feel chaotic and disorienting? Who or what (or where) is God, and how can spiritual practice sustain us in our work, relationships, and commitments? In this 2-semester introductory course, we’ll explore Jewish holidays, texts, rituals, practices, theology, philosophy, political thought, and mysticism as lenses through which to address these and other critical questions. We won’t be trying to find “the” solution to any of them; instead, we’ll be looking for new ways to ask the questions and wrestle with the multiple — and often contradictory — potential answers.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructors: Rabbi Leslie Gordon and Rabbi Allison Berry (Read Bios) Dates: 11 Tuesdays, Fall 2024: 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3 & 12/10 Time: 7-9:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $200* (Thanks to the generosity of CJP) Location: In Person at Hebrew College Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration: Click here
Jewish life and living are connected to Jewish history, thought and the cycle of time. This course, taught over two semesters, touches on the cycle of Jewish time, including holidays, lifecycle milestones and prayer. We will explore Jewish history from Biblical times to the present and the evolution of Jewish thought. In addition, we’ll examine Jewish family and communal life, relationship with the Divine and the land of Israel.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Marcia Plumb (Read Bio) Dates: 6 Wednesdays, Fall 2024: 11/20, 12/18, 1/15, 2/19, 3/19 & 4/23 Time: 7:30-9:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $240, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by Central Reform Temple Registration:Click here
Mussar is a Jewish spiritual practice that gives concrete instructions on how to live a meaningful and ethical life. Mussar is virtue-based ethics — based on the idea that by cultivating inner virtues, we improve ourselves, offering opportunities for personal transformation through a Jewish lens. This introductory monthly cohort will explore different middot (character traits). No knowledge of Hebrew or prior experience necessary.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Natan Margalit (Read Bio) Dates: 5 Thursdays, Fall 2024: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5 & 12/12 Time: 7-9:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $250, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by the North Shore Clergy Group Registration:Click here
How do we find ways to disagree and yet remain friends, or at least civil enough to co-exist in the same society? When does speech go over the line and become unacceptable, and when do we embrace differences of opinion? These are central and vital questions in the current political and social climate. Jewish tradition has much to say about argument, oppression with words, and inclusion verses exclusion from communities. In this course we’ll explore Jewish sources, from biblical to Talmudic to Hasidic, and contemporary writers and thinkers, including Parker Palmer, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Michael Pollen and more.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Neal Gold (Read Bio) Dates: 10 Wednesdays, Fall 2024: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15 & 1/22 Time: 9:30-11:30 a.m. ET Course fee: $500, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
The hidden novella implanted in Genesis, the Joseph story is a literary masterpiece that deserves to be studied as such—on the same shelf as similar ancient classics of world literature. More than any other Biblical story, Joseph is the story of us: The first Jew of the Diaspora who finds success and love but who also discovers that his “new” identity is thwarted when the “Old Country” arrives on his doorstep. It’s also the remarkable story of a family torn apart and seeking wholeness and repair.
