Adult Ed Series: Encountering God Today with Guest Scholar, Rabbi Neil Gold

07 Nov @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Location: Zoom

Guest scholar, Rabbi Neil Gold will teach a five-session course on the exploration of modern Jewish theology through the lens of some of the great spiritual challenges of our moment: What are miracles? Is God best encountered alone or in communities? What does Big Bang cosmology mean for the God of creation? Can God command anything today? What does faith mean in the wake of the Shoah and radical evil?

The class will take place on the following dates:
November 7, 14 and 21
December 5 and 12

A Zoom link will be provided after registration with your confirmation email.

Neal Gold is a prolific writer, teacher, counselor and social activist who loves how the beauty and power of Jewish texts and traditions unite communities, inform Jewish souls and transform the world. He is a sought-after visiting scholar for synagogues and Jewish communities, adjunct faculty at Hebrew College, and teaches in the College’s Meah program, courses of study that empower adults to understand Judaism on a deeper level. Neal is founder and director of A Tree with Roots, an online Jewish learning and community platform for students in North America and overseas. For years he worked in Israel with the Ziv Tzedakah Fund, teaching thousands of teenagers about creative and offbeat ways in which people do the work of repairing the world. Neal is a founding member of the President’s Council of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He also sits on the Advisory Committee of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College. Learn more about Neal here.

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