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SUMMARY:Bikkur Cholim: Becoming a Better You by Helping Someone Else with Rabbi Israel de la Piedra
DESCRIPTION:We know someone who is sick\, lonely or ageing. We want to visit them and help. But how often have we stopped in our tracks as the reality of the upcoming visit hits us? What are we going to do when we visit? What are we going to say? How should we behave? Is prayer part of the visit? What if the person doesn’t want a visitor or doesn’t want to talk? Will we be of help\, or will we be a bother? And so on. Bikkur Cholim – visiting the sick\, the lonely and the old – may seem hard. We know it is important\, a true mitzvah\, but we may not feel prepared for doing it. What does it take to rise up to the occasion? This 3-session course will help you learn the practicalities of bikkur cholim visits; identify ways in which spirituality and prayer can help us in our efforts to reach out to those whom we visit; and appreciate the special case of visiting our ageing elders. And importantly\, what we learn will help us not only be prepared to face the challenges of being there for others but also will help us prepare for our own future because one day we may well be that sick person or that ageing person who needs a visit. \nSession Schedule\n\n2/22 – Visiting the sick\, the lonely\, and the old\n3/1 – Spirituality\, prayer and religion in the visit\n3/8 – The special case of old age\n\nRegister→ \nAbout Rabbi Israel de la Piedra\nRabbi Israel has been working with the sick\, the old and the dying for the last fifteen years. He was the Rabbi and Spiritual Director at Miami Jewish Health (MJH)\, a large senior residential and rehabilitation facility in Miami\, during 2014-2021. He was awarded the “Clergy of the Year” award by the Ministering to the Elderly Conference in Miami in 2021 for his work at MJH. After his return to Boston in late 2021\, Rabbi Israel worked as a hospice chaplain at AccentCare Hospice and currently serves as the rabbi at Hebrew Senior Life’s Simon C. Fireman Community in Randolph\, MA. Rabbi Israel received his rabbinical ordination from Hebrew College in 2013. Prior to becoming a rabbi\, he had a long career as an economist with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and in two African countries. Rabbi Israel and his wife Aliza are proud members of Temple Emanuel and keep homes in Kiriat Motzkin (near Haifa) in Israel and in Canton\, MA.
URL:https://www.templeemanuel.com/event/bikkur-cholim-becoming-a-better-you-by-helping-someone-else-with-rabbi-israel-de-la-piedra/2026-02-22/
LOCATION:Gann Chapel\, 385 Ward Street\, Newton\, MA\, 02459\, United States
CATEGORIES:Active Older Adults,Adult Education,Community,Parenting,Retirement,Support
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music Concerts
DESCRIPTION:The first concert in our free 2026 Chamber Music Concert series will feature performers Jan Müller-Szeraws (cello) and Randall Hodgkinson (piano). \nJoin us in-person or on livestream! \nThe Chamber Series is sponsored by Saul B. and Naomi R. Cohen Foundation \nAbout Jan Müller-Szeraws\nCellist Jan Müller-Szeraws has a versatile career as a performer and pedagogue. \nA guest at many chamber music festivals\, his solo performances have included engagements with orchestras in the US\, Germany\, Chile and Russia with repertoire ranging from concertos from the traditional cello-repertoire such as Haydn\, Dvorak\, Schumann\, Tchaikovsky\, Bloch\, Shostakovich to contemporary cello-concertos by composers Chou Wen Chung\, Gunther Schuller\, Shirish Korde\, Bernard Hoffer and John Harbison. \nHis recordings include “Anusvara”\, a disc with music by Shirish Korde for cello\, tabla and Carnatic soprano\, Bernard Hoffer’s “Concerto di Camera for Cello and Ensemble” with Boston Musica Viva\, Pedro Humberto Allende’s Cello Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile\, as well as Sonatas by Brahms and Chopin with pianist Adam Golka for Hammond Performing Arts. \nHe has been guest professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile\, a guest with the Israeli Chamber Project as well as guest principal cellist for projects with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and Bamberger Symphoniker in Germany and plays often as an extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A long time member of contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva\, he is currently a core member of Collage New Music. \nAs Artist-in-Residence at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester he directed the Performance Program and was founder and director of the Chamber Music Institute at Holy Cross. He currently teaches at the Phillips Academy Andover. Most recently he has been pairing the Bach Cello Suites with works by Shirish Korde in his project “Bach\, Ragas & Jazz”. \nAbout Randall Hodgkinson\n“The finest performance I have ever heard of this very difficult piece. It was as if he was reading my mind…” Aaron Copland on hearing pianist Randall Hodgkinson performing his Piano Fantasy in Jordan Hall. \nWhile a student at the New England Conservatory Hodgkinson became grand prizewinner of the International American Music Competition sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has performed with orchestras in Atlanta\, Philadelphia\, Buffalo\, Boston\, Cleveland and abroad in Italy and Iceland\, and also numerous recital programs spanning the repertoire from J.S. Bach to Donald Martino. \nA frequent guest of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players\, he also performs the four-hand and two-piano repertoire with his wife\, Leslie Amper. Festival appearances include Ravinia\, Bargemusic\, Chestnut Hill Concerts in Madison Connecticut\, Seattle Chamber Music Festival\, and Chamber Music Northwest (Portland\, OR). Solo recordings on the Ongaku\, New World\, and Albany labels have garnered much critical acclaim. \nMr. Hodgkinson is on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music and Wellesley College and is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner™. \n \nTHE SAUL B. AND NAOMI R. COHEN FOUNDATION\nFounded in 1997\, the Foundation supports and promotes the fine and performing arts. It awards grants to promising young artists and especially gifted performing musicians to enable them to further their artistic pursuits. The Foundation also assists in the development of the musical careers of classical artists with assistance in arranging performance engagements\, counseling in career strategy\, guidance in the selection of live and recorded performances and help in day-to-day living matters. \nTo receive email communications about the Chamber Concert series\, please contact sbc87home@gmail.com.
URL:https://www.templeemanuel.com/event/chamber-music-concerts-2-22/
LOCATION:Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary\, 385 Ward Street\, Newton\, MA\, 02459\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Livestream,Music
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