Sunday, November 13, 2011
10:30am – 2:30pm, Asper Jewish Community Campus, 123 Doncaster Street
The Global Day of Jewish Learning unites Jewish communities around the globe to celebrate our foundational Jewish texts through community based learning. Last year’s inaugural event celebrated the completion of the Steinsaltz Talmud and counted over 400 communities in 48 countries and on six continents – clear evidence of the importance that Jews everywhere place on the shared experience of study.
10:30 am – Choose from the following classes:
- Rabbi Alan Green “Hear O Israel: Reincarnation in Jewish Tradition”
- Rabbi Larry Pinsker “God Just Listens and Lets You Work It Out Yourself: Shema Yisrael and the Holy Act of Paying Attention”
- Jazán Aníbal Mass “El Poder Oculto de las Plegarias: La Kabalá del Shemá Israel (Class to be held in Spanish)
- Rabbi Ari Ellis “You Shall Love the Lord Your God: How is it Possible for a Human Being to Love God?”
- Ruth Ashrafi “Shema: Time management according to the Talmud”
- A PJ Library – Shema in the Kaufman Silverberg Library
12:15 pm – Brunch
1:00 pm – Author Roberta Rich presenting on her book “The Midwife of Venice” in conjunction with Rady JCC’s Tarbut Festival.
For information call Florencia Katz @ 480-7559
$10 at the door for the full program and brunch