Beyond Charity: Doing Chesed, Creating the World with Rabbi Aviva Richman

Join Rabbi Aviva Richman to study excerpts of Rabbi Yitzhak Hunter’s essays that weave together classical rabbinic texts along with modern philosophy and creatively re-imagine the meaning, challenge and power of chesed. This workshop is $18 (scholarships available upon request to program@germantownjewishcentre.org).

REGISTER FOR THE SUNDAY WORKSHOP HERE

Please join us in welcoming Rabbi Aviva Richman as this year’s Rabbi Elias Charry Memorial Scholar-in-Residence. Rabbi Richman is on the faculty at Hadar Institute in NYC, where she teaches Talmud and other Jewish texts.  A native of Baltimore, her Jewish roots include a liberal Havurah and a hassidic shtibl.  After her undergraduate work in Jewish studies and feminism at Oberlin College, she went on to pursue private ordination with Rabbi Danny Landes in Jerusalem, and is finishing a doctorate in rabbinic literature at NYU.  Rabbi Richman has taught on Talmud, gender and Judaism across North America. In addition to studying words of Torah, she loves to bring niggunim to life through song and piano.

For more information on the weekend, including Rabbi Elias Charry’s impact on Germantown Jewish Centre, click here.