Adult Education Class Offerings
Alef Bet & Beyond!
Taught by: Rabbi SAM Luckey
Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 8:45 pm ONLINE for 5 sessions. January 21 and 28; February 4, 11, and 18.
Come learn to decode the alef-bet! In this five week course, we will learn the letters and vowels using fun visual and aural mnemonics. Home practice between classes is highly encouraged.
Whether this is your first encounter with these 22 holy gateways or eighteenth, we will build a foundation for reading sacred Hebrew texts such as Torah, Talmud, and liturgy. This class will prepare you to join a trope class, a 700 Benches talmud class, or other workshops that involve studying Hebrew or Aramaic texts in their original languages.
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Adult Trope Class
Taught by: Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman
Weekly on Thursdays from 7:15-8:45 pm, 8 sessions, in person only, starting on Thursday, January 23, 2025.
Join Hazzan Shulamit for this eight week IN-PERSON only course to learn trope, the musical system for chanting Torah from the scroll. LEARN MORE
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The Place You Are Standing is Holy
Taught by: Rabbi Dev Noily
Weekly on Mondays from 7-9 pm for 6 sessions, in person only, starting on Monday, February 10, 2025.
Life brings us glimpses of awe – through encounters with love, beauty, and also grief – and can awaken in us both a yearning and a wholeness, a desire for (re-)connection and an at-homeness with what’s true. We are spiritual beings, connected beings, with awareness of the subtle and the grand. Most of us didn’t grow up learning to tend to our spirit in the same ways that we were taught to care for our bodies and our minds. We’ve been cut off from the living waters that sustained our ancestors for generations. In this class we’ll combine a spacious reflection on the spiritual path of our lives with learning Jewish practices and teachings that can nourish and sustain our spiritual lives. LEARN MORE
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Exploring Jewish
* Learning * Reflection * Adult Bar/Bat/B’ Mitzvah * Conversion *
If you’ve been thinking about giving your interest in Jewish learning and experience more focused attention, Kehilla would like to encourage, and help support your effort. However you define what “Jewish” experience means to you, there are opportunities to explore and enrich that part of your life. You may have a desire to study toward a bar/bat/b’ mitzvah, a conversion, or an affirmation ceremony, or just to give yourself the gift of deeper personal exploration.
If this intrigues you (“I’m curious” is a sufficient response, more is welcome), write to Rabbi SAM at rabbisam@kehillasynagogue.