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Elul Learning Series 2022: Personal Prep For The High Holy Days
September 5th, 2022 | 44 mins 54 secs
Elul is the month of reflection and preparation for Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur. Rabbi Mark Borovitz conducted this learning to help us enter the High Holidays with a sense of completeness for the year we are leaving and a plan/purpose for our year to come.
The class was conducted at Temple Beth Am via Zoom on September 5, 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Back to Basics of Prayer
September 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 26 mins
Our tradition is full to the brim with prayers. We read them, sing them, study them, recite them - but do we ever think of praying as a skill? In this session we’ll go back to the basics of what it means to pray and explore together what some of our wise teachers - including our own souls - have to say about it.
This class took place at Temple Beth Am via Zoom on September 4, 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Spiritual Poetic Expressions of the High Holiday Mahzor - Class 3
September 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
Rabbi Joel Rembaum leads a class reading and reflecting upon the mystical spirituality of a selection of classical poems embedded in the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The text used is the Mahzor Lev Shalem, with its fine English translation and insightful commentary.
This is the third class in the series conducted via Zoom on August 31. 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Back to Basics of Journal Writing
September 1st, 2022 | 35 mins 47 secs
Annie Spar leads an interactive class in journaling as a practice to deepen the meaning of the High Holy Days.
This class was conducted via Zoom on September 1, 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Back to Basics of Being a Gabbai Spotter - Class 1
August 31st, 2022 | 54 mins 40 secs
Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny leads a class on what goes into being a spotter at the Torah.
This class took place at Temple Beth Am and via Zoom on August 30, 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Back to Basics - Jewish Views vs. American & Christian Thought
August 30th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
Rabbi Elliot Dorff teaches a class on how the Jewish view has implications for what happens when we go astray, morally, legally, personally in contrast to the views of American and Christian thought.
This class took at Temple Beth Am via Zoom on August 29, 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Spiritual Poetic Expressions of the High Holiday Mahzor - Class 2
August 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
Rabbi Joel Rembaum leads a class reading and reflecting upon the mystical spirituality of a selection of classical poems embedded in the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The text used is the Mahzor Lev Shalem, with its fine English translation and insightful commentary.
This is the second class in the series conducted via Zoom on August 24. 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2022: Spiritual Poetic Expressions of the High Holiday Mahzor - Class 1
August 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
Rabbi Joel Rembaum leads a class reading and reflecting upon the mystical spirituality of a selection of classical poems embedded in the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The text used is the Mahzor Lev Shalem, with its fine English translation and insightful commentary.
This is the first class in the series conducted via Zoom on August 17. 2022.
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Elul Learning Series 2021: Rambam's Hilkhot Teshuvah
September 3rd, 2021 | 53 mins 27 secs
Join Rabbi Adam Kligfeld for both a survey of, and a partial deep dive into, the seminal work on Repentance/Teshuvah authored by Maimonides/the Rambam. As we confront his Hilkhot Teshuvah/Laws of Repentance, we will understand the Torah’s and the rabbis’ expectations of us during this heavy and important season of return.
This class is part of Temple Beth Am's Elul Learning Series 2021: (Re)Building our Home. The series includes classes on Shmita, Chevra Kadisha, Mental and Spiritual Health, Ritual Innovation, Combating Homelessness in our City, Torah learning, 20/30s Relationship Building and more. The series was organized by Beth Am Associate Rabbi Rebecca Schatz.
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Elul Learning Series 2021: Ritual Design Course
August 31st, 2021 | 54 mins 27 secs
Our inherited tradition is ripe with rituals, some ancient and many that are ever-evolving. Over the course of Elul, we’ll unpack the science of ritual design and learn what really makes a ritual click. Join Rabbi-Cantor Hillary Chorny as she explores the perspectives of contemporary ritual thinkers and we have a blast imagining what rituals are, can be, and should be. You’ll emerge from this course with at least one new profound personal ritual.
This class is part of Temple Beth Am's Elul Learning Series 2021: (Re)Building our Home. The series includes classes on Shmita, Chevra Kadisha, Mental and Spiritual Health, Ritual Innovation, Combating Homelessness in our City, Torah learning, 20/30s Relationship Building and more. The series was organized by Beth Am Associate Rabbi Rebecca Schatz.