JTS High Holiday Webinars 2024
Date: Sep 16, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Sponsor: Online Learning | Online Lecture Series
Location: Online
Category: JTS High Holidays Webinars
Join JTS in preparing for this year’s High Holidays season with three meaningful and enriching sessions.
Repentance and the Mystical “Rope”: The Divine-Human Relationship in Jewish Thought
Monday, September 16, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Online
With Dr. Shira Billet, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics, JTS
One of the most striking images of the divine-human relationship in Jewish thought is the kabbalistic image of a rope or cord that extends from God in the heavens into the soul of the human being. We will explore a diverse array of Jewish thinkers over the centuries who have found this metaphor meaningful, especially in times of challenge and suffering, giving them hope to continue to strive to become closer to God. In the context of the High Holiday season, we will give special attention to connections between this metaphor and themes and liturgies of the High Holiday season.
Shemini Atzeret, Rain, and Resurrection
Monday, September 23, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Online
With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Adjunct Professor, JTS, and Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
The High Holiday season ends with Shemini Atzeret—the Eighth Day of Assembly. According to our tradition, on Rosh Hashanah, our fate for the coming year is written; on Yom Kippur, it is sealed; and on Shemini Atzeret, it is mailed out. This year, as we approach Shemini Atzeret, the holiday carries the weight of last year’s massacre, the war it launched, and the pain of captives carried into darkness.
In this session, we will explore the unique themes of the holiday and hold them in dialogue with this moment of brokenness, the weight of war, the complexities of peoplehood, and the ongoing need for healing and rebirth.
Book Talk: Seeking the Hiding God: A Personal Theological Essay
Monday, September 30, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Online
With Dr. Arnold Eisen, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS
To mark this period of spiritual atonement and reflection, Dr. Eisen will discuss his rich, original, and moving work and invite us to ask, perhaps for the first time, what we actually believe about ultimate matters of faith and doubt. Those of us searching for ultimate meaning will find reassurance that the search itself can be a source of personal fulfillment, vibrant community, and great joy. The book’s three chapters include a Passover Seder with its theme of past and future redemption; the Yom Kippur liturgy that guides worshippers through the difficult work of atonement, forgiveness and return; and the day-to-day responsibilities, personal and communal, of covenant, mitzvah, and love.
Note: The Zoom link will be the same for all sessions in the JTS High Holiday Webinar series. You can register one time for all sessions in this series.
