Learning For Couples, With Couples || Rosalie Katchen Memorial Lecture || Patcha b'Chokhma: Women Scholars Speak to Ma'ayan
Learning For Couples, With Couples
Three Melave Malkah nights out for couples to learn together in an intimate environment. Join a local rabbinic couple to explore Jewish thought on the theme of relationships in private homes in Newton, Brookline, and Sharon. Each evening is $36 per couple and limited to 12 couples, and a light dinner will be served at each event.
Saturday night, January 14
7:30 PM
Rabbi Shmuel and D'vorah Miller
"So Happy Together: Torah Texts on ReDiscovering Joy in Marriage"
Private home, Newton.
Saturday night, February 18
7:30 PM
Rabbi Benjamin and Stephanie Samuels
"Remodeling Your Bayit Ne'eman: Ancient Sources, Modern Insights into the Good Marriage"
Private home, Brookline
Saturday night, March 3
7:30 PM
Rabbi Yaakov and Yael Jaffe
"Save Us from a Bad Neighbor": What It Means to be a Neighbor--Insights from Tanakh
Private home, Sharon
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Evenings are limited to 12 couples, on a first-come, first-served basis, places are not guaranteed until you receive a confirmation email and make your payment.
Patcha b'Chokhma: Women Scholars Speak to Ma'ayan
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Saturday night, December 3, 2011
Judy Klitsner, author of Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other
The Matriarch as Forbidden Fruit: Sarah as Object of Desire
Why would the narrative of Abraham and Sarah draw on the language of the Garden of Eden narrative, casting Sarah in the role of the garden's forbidden fruit? By reading the story of Abraham and Sarah in light of the Garden of Eden narrative, we will reveal a troubling, and ultimately redemptive, dynamic in the Bible's presentation of its women. Join us for a lively, interactive exploration with a beloved teacher.
8:00 PM
Private home, Sharon
$15
Women only
Monday night, May 7, 2012
Avivah Zornberg, author of Genesis: the Beginnings of Desire and The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
About Patcha b'Chokhma: Women Scholars Speak to Ma'ayan
This ongoing women-only series offers participants the opportunity to study with a respected scholar, and, in addition, a chance to engage her in a less formal conversation. As part of our mission of promoting traditional text study for women, we encourage students to encounter an Isha Melumedet (a learned woman) as a teacher, a scholar, and a woman.
If you would like to sponsor a Ma'ayan event, please email Roselyn Farren, Program Director, directly at director@maayan.org; sponsorship is a wonderful way to honor a loved one or to celebrate a milestone.
Sunday, September 18, 8:00 PM
Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, 35 Morseland Ave, Newton
Eleventh Annual Rosalie Katchen Memorial Lecture
with Professor Jay Berkovitz
Prayer, Gravitas and Lightness of Being: David Dancing Before the Ark
Through a reading of the story of David dancing before the Ark in 2 Samuel, 6:14-22, we will explore the relationship between emotion and prayer as understood in the Talmud and by Maimonides, Rav Abraham Isaac Kuk, and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. The illuminating story of David before the Ark provides a paradigm for modern prayer and the range of seemingly contradictory experiences—joy and awe, love and fear, inspiration and humiliation—that lie at the heart of prayer on Rosh Hashanah.
Jay R. Berkovitz is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and directs the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He earned his Ph.D. at Brandeis University, and has served as a visiting professor at Bar Ilan University, Boston Hebrew College, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Touro College, Trinity College, and the University of Connecticut Storrs. Widely published, Professor Berkovitz is most recently the author of Tradition and Revolution: Jewish Culture in Early Modern France. A friend of Rosalie Katchen, A"H, Professor Berkovitz was chosen to give this year's Memorial lecture by the Katchen family.
The Rosalie Katchen Memorial Lecture is Free and Open to the public.
If you wish to support this annual event, please email info@maayan.org by September 14 to pledge, and send your check to Ma'ayan, P.O. Box 254, Newton, MA 02464. You may also make your donation here, but please be sure to email us the name(s) that should appear in the Program. Contributors of $36 and above will be acknowledged in the evening's program.