Rabbi's Sisterhood Class

The Individual and the Collective:
The Sources Presented by the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem

The animating tension in the material is that Judaism is largely focused on the communal we. We pray in the plural. We can only say kaddish in a minyan. Even on the most personal of days for our individual repentance and return, Yom Kippur, all of the confessionals speak in the plural: We have sinned...

And yet, for most moderns in our time and place, we think in terms of I, not we. The sovereign self decides. For many, for most, perhaps for all, autonomy is God. I do what I want to do, and don't do what I don't want to do.

How do we square these polarities and live with them both?

For questions, please contact Mady Donoff at mady.donoff@hadassah.org. New members always welcome to join the group.

Our weekly class with Rabbi Gardenswartz is held from 9:30 am to 10:30 am every Tuesday in the Gann Chapel and is open to all. 

There will be no class on December 27^th