Summer 2024 Session I Schedule: July 8-25
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | |
9:00-11:30 am | Introductory Mishna - The Laws of Time: Building Sacred Rhythms - David Debow Introductory Talmud - Social Justice in Tractate Ketubot: What Does that Look Like? - Nechama Goldman Barash Intermediate Talmud - Language and Identity: A Talmudic Perspective - Leah Rosenthal Advanced Talmud - Rabbinic Creativity through the Lens of Tikkun Olam: Gittin 4 - Rachel Weber Leshaw | ||||
11:30-11:45 am | Break | ||||
11:45 am- | Spirituality - Practice the Practice: Breath Awareness and Quieting the Mind - Yiscah Smith Tanakh - Deception and Subterfuge in the Tanakh - Howard Markose Torah and Personal Growth - The Torah’s Heroic Journey - Mike Feuer Midrash - The God of our Mothers, the Mothers of our People - Maya Zinkow | ||||
1:00-2:00 pm | Lunch Break | ||||
2:00-4:00 pm | Conversion in Halakha - Zvi Hirschfield Moses: One Prophet, Seventy Faces - Rafael J. Polisuk Revealing Special Sparks of Meaning in the 5 Scrolls - Marc Rosenberg | Anatomy of a Shiur - Sefi Kraut & Rahel Dweck Advanced Tanakh - Erotica, Melancholia and Parodia in Shir Hashirim, Eicha and Esther - Howard Markose Post-Movements and Post-Modernity - David Levin-Kruss | SEE SUNDAY | SEE MONDAY | 2:00-3:00 pm Mifgash (reflection + discussion) |
3:00-3:15 pm Mincha | |||||
3:15-6:00* pm Volunteering / walking tours of Jerusalem neighborhood / museum tour *estimated return time | |||||
4:00-4:15 pm | Mincha | ||||
*optional enrichment slot* | |||||
4:30-5:45 pm | Daf Yomi (daily Talmud study) | ||||
Scribal Arts | Learning Ta’amei Hamikra | Learning Ta’amei Hamikra | |||
*optional evening sessions* | |||||
6:30-8:30 pm | Optional enrichment activities (check calendar for updates) |