Friendship During Crisis: Learning from the Book of Job
with Rabbi Mychal Springer, Adjunct Professor, JTS, and Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
Job’s friends come to Job in the midst of his unspeakable losses and try to comfort him. We learn from the Book of Job and explore the challenges of being a good friend when someone is suffering.
About the Series
“Two Are Better Than One:” Friendship in Jewish Text and Tradition
Friendship is a critical component of our daily lives, our mental health, and our Jewish communal experiences. Ecclesiastes (4:9) posits, “Two are better than one,” underscoring the significance of companionship and partnership in Jewish tradition and the role they play in a life well-lived. Join JTS faculty to explore the concept of friendship through Jewish texts, history, and thought. They will consider friendship in times of joy and times of crisis, both with those in our inner circles and with our neighbors and fellow citizens more broadly. We also consider some important paradigms for friendship and discuss the values we can distill from these models of friendship
