Sponsored by the Leo and Sara Wolf Adult Education Fund

 

6pm: Musical Friday Night Service

7:15pm: Dinner, followed by learning: Looking Forward to an Uncertain Future: Jewish Imaginings of What's Coming

Dinner will be from Gokul. Includes challah, wine and dessert.
$25 adults, $10 children 5-12. 

9am: Shabbat Morning Service with Sermon: The Microcosm and the Macrocosm

12pm: Kiddush, followed by learning: Looking Back to a Ruptured Past: Remembering What Once Was

 

Jewish religious traditions center obligation as a constituent element of the human condition. Caring for young children is defined by obligation, yet the daily tasks of caring for young children sometimes interrupt our religious lives. In this workshop, we'll reflect on the relationship between our own daily experiences of being obligated in caring for young children and traditional Jewish concepts of obligation. In what ways do we understand our caregiving work to be religiously meaningful? How might we experience it that way?

 

 

Mara H. Benjamin is an Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She holds a Ph.D. in modern Jewish thought and religious studies from Stanford University. Her 2018 book, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (Indiana) received the 2019 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective category, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 2018. She is also the author of Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity (Cambridge, 2009). Her current book in progress is entitled Terrestrial: Jewish Thought and a World Disrupted.