High Holiday Webinars

Exile and Return as a Spiritual Paradigm
On the Haftarot of the High Holidays
with Rabbi Mychal Springer
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The Sacrifices of Hagar, Ishmael, and Isaac
On the Torah Readings for Rosh Hashana
with Dr. Aaron Koller
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The Yom Kippur Avodah (Temple Rites) as a Template for Spiritual Practice
On the Torah Reading for Yom Kippur
with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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How Shall It all End?
Ecclesiastes, Yizkor, and Shemini Atzeret 
On Kohelet and Yizkor for Shemini Atzeret
with Rabbi Gordon Tucker
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The Journey Toward Repentance and Forgiveness
with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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All of us want to repent, but we don’t necessarily have a game plan. The nature of forgiveness is also not clear to many of us. Drawing upon the teachings of Maimonides, Rav Kook, and Twelve Step literature, we will chart a course toward achieving both of these goals.

Bridging Dust and Divinity in the Days of Awe:
Unpacking the Unetaneh Tokef Prayer
with Rabbi Mychal Springer
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We will explore this prayer that stands at the heart of the Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe), with its stark juxtapositions of who shall live and who shall die, its haunting evocation of a celestial ledger, which is also a Book of Life. This prayer gives voice to human hopes and fears, inviting us to wrestle with our mortality, potentially helping us to align with the divine.

God of the Faithful, God of the Faithless:
Belief and Doubt in Prayer
with Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness:
What are We Doing and How Do We Do It?
with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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From Self-Interest to Self-Surrender: Confronting the Challenges of Prayer
with Dr. Benjamin D. Sommer
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Restoring Balance: Exploring an Ancient
Paradigm for Moving Beyond Our Mistakes
with Rabbi Julia Andelman
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