Note: Each Parasha Class weekly unless otherwise notified by the presenting Rabbi.
Rabbi Michael Simon
Temple Beth Kodesh Zoom site. 10:00 a.m.- 11: 00 a.m.
Starting November 2, 2023
Talmud: Tractate Megilla
Tractate Megilla primarily focuses on explaining all of the rules that apply to the holiday of Purim. Additionally, it discusses the general rules of synagogues and Torah readings. For example, we learn how the Megilla must be read in public or by a single individual, the languages in which it may be read, who is obligated to hear the reading of the Megilla, and who may read the Megilla for the entire congregation. Megillah is also the only tractate that addresses the laws of public readings of the Torah and Haftara in the synagogue as well as the sanctity of the synagogue and its sacred items.
Rabbi Daniel Krinsky
Temple Bnai Jacob – live – 1:00 p.m. –
Starting November 2 – each Thursday afternoon
Weekly Parasha
Rabbi Jacob Benzaquen
Temple Beth Tikvah – live 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Weekly Parasha: Torah like you’ve never heard before –
THIS AIN’T YOUR Bubbe’s Parasha –
The Torah is breathtaking in scope and depth. As wide as the sea and as deep. The P`A`R`D`ES or four levels of meaning are compounded geometrically by the 70 facets or faces of Torah.
Dr. Stanley Isser
March 7,14,21,28, April 4, 2024 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Temple Torat Emet
Deuteronomy — Book of the Covenant: Its history, legislation, political and religious policy, and influence on the rest of the Bible. How can we relate to its positive and negative aspects?
Sessions include the origin of the book and its use in King Josiah’s religious purge; its relation to pre-exilic prophets; its remarkable ethical and humanitarian sensitivities in its laws contrasted with a social/religious policy not unlike the Spanish Inquisition; and the theology it imposes on the corpus of the Bible’s historical books.