Wednesday, February 18, 2015

[saje] EVENT TONIGHT: Bagels and Passover Lecture!

Reminder! Joel Goldstein is coming tonight to deliver a Passover seminar with bagels and other goodies! Please RSVP if you have not already, and we cannot wait to see you there!

Wednesday, February 18th, 6:30pm

5450 Dorchester.

We will examine two parallel, early sources for the seder from the Mishnah and Tosefta, to figure out what the early Rabbis envisioned for a ceremonial replay and retelling of the Exodus.

Joel Goldstein is a former engineer and programmer who now works in Jewish education, including teaching Talmud at Chicagoland Jewish High School. He spent a year at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, including a semester in the Kollel, and a summer at Yeshivat Hadar. Together with his wife, he spent two years teaching, running minyanim, and consulting with students as a Yeshivat Hadar Campus Scholar at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington. He grew up in Los Angeles and attended Shalhevet High School. He currently writes weekly source sheets, which he shares at http://threefoldcordtorah.blogspot.com/.


Please RSVP to saje@uchicago.edu