Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism with Visiting Scholar, Rabbi Neal Gold
18 Apr @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Feb 29 – Room 1 & Zoom, March & April – Zoom only. Zoom access will be provided with your registration confirmation.
Cost: Free
Course Schedule: Thursdays, February 29 (in-person and Zoom) and March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18 (Zoom only)
Our “Thursday Temple Teaching” adult education program features an eight-week course titled Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism taught by visiting scholar, Rabbi Neal Gold. This course offers a meaningful, wide-ranging overview of Judaism’s mystical ways, incuding the origins of Kabbalah and how this this enigmatic branch of Judaism can reverberate with us today.
Join us at temple on Thursday, February 29 for an opportunity to meet Neal Gold in person prior to the subsequent online classes.
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.