Rabbi's Shabbat Morning Talmud Class
Rabbi Samuel Chiel Kallah
Rabbi Samuel Chiel Kallah
Join us
Saturday, May 19th
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Sunday, May 20th
9:15 - 11:30 am
Guest Scholar : Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer
Yehuda Kurtzer is President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He received his doctorate in Jewish Studies from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on the Jews of the Mediterranean Diaspora and their relationship to the rise of rabbinic piety.
An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowships and Bronfman Youth Fellowships, Yehuda lectures and teaches widely in both academic and community educational settings.
His newest book, entitled Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past (released April, 2012), focuses on issues of Jewish identity and meaning, and offers new thinking on how contemporary Jews can and should relate to our past. The book has been called a work "of rare academic and spiritual depth" in which Dr. Kurtzer "draws effortlessly and brilliantly upon Jewish and western intellectual and religious traditions to create a work of constructive Jewish thought at its best."
The annual Rabbi Samuel Chiel Kallah is a stimulating weekend of prayer, study, and good fellowship that finds its roots in the Talmudic period, when thousands of Jews flocked to the great academies of Babylonia to hear lectures by the scholar Rav.
Our Kallah, named in 1978 as a tribute to the values taught by our Rav, Rabbi Samuel Chiel, offers each of us the modern equivalent of this Talmudic institution.
