Hi SAJE! We have two events coming up soon:
1. This Friday, 2/19: Donuts, Hot Chocolate and Jewish Philosophy
Come discuss Jewish ideas about free will, over hot chocolate and donuts, with our very own Hillel Steinmetz, this Friday, 2/19 at 5pm in the 3rd floor beit midrash at Hillel.
Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/799831500121178/
2. This coming Monday, 2/22: Pre-Purim dinner and learning with Malka Simkovich
In honor of Purim, Malka Simkovich, a doctoral candidate at Brandeis studying 2nd Temple Judaism and rabbinic literature and early Christian literature will teach about the Poetics of the Book of Esther. There will be dinner at 8 and she will be teaching at 8:30 at Hillel. Please RSVP to Rabbi Anna at alrosen@uchicago.edu.
3. Interesting Torah question for anyone who reads these emails to think about: read verse 25 of this chapter. What does it mean that God gave the Jewish people bad laws as punishment? Are those still laws we have? Let me know if you have interesting thoughts because I've been thinking about it a lot.
Yours in Torah,
Avital
