Past Adult Education Programs

Past Lunch & Learn topics

    • Summer 2025: Perspectives on Christianity: Catholicism, Protestantism, and Unitarian Universalism presented by three area clergy.
    • Spring 2025: Encountering the New Testament through a Jewish Lens
    • Fall 2024: Reading Torah with Dirshuni

Spring 2025: Counting the Omer with the Sefirot

Join Reb Josh in the kabbalistic practice of self-examination through the lens of seven of the ten divine attributes that we, being in the Divine Image, embody in ourselves. Each week we focus on one Sefirah, from the outpouring love of chesed, to the grounded majesty of Malchut/Shechinah – as we prepare ourselves for the holiday of Shavuot, on which tradition teaches we receive the Torah each year anew.

Winter 2025: For the Sake of Heaven: Conflict and Dispute in the Jewish Tradition

“Two Jews, three opinions,” goes the saying. From its origin, the Jewish tradition has been steeped in arguments and disagreements. How have we survived for over two thousand years when we can’t even agree on how to light our Hanukkah candles? What can we learn today about debate and coexistence from the ways Jews have disagreed over the years?

 

Summer 2024 — Spring 2025 Queer Torah Study Group

Reb Josh brings texts from across the Jewish tradition to explore issues of gender and sexuality from a queer perspective.