This course will explore the writings of some of the major contributors to modern Jewish thought including Mordecai Kaplan, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel and more.
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TUESDAYS, Time 12:00-1:30 pm (ET) November 5, 2024 - January 21, 2025
"We must go beyond thinking of God either through naive personification or through philosophical abstraction. Both are inadequate. We should use HUMAN EXPERIENCE as the
criterion."
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan
Course Description:
This nine-week course will explore the writings of some of the major contributors to modern Jewish thought. These include Mordecai Kaplan, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Joseph Soloveitchik, Irving Yitz Greenberg and Eugene Borowitz, (with many of whom the teacher of this course personally studied!). Together, their writings represent the spectrum from Liberal to Traditional in modern Jewish belief. In addition to their personal writings, we will analyze excerpts from the platforms of the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist movements in order to understand each of their struggles to reconcile the sacred past with the needs and challenges of the present. Come join me on this journey.
TUESDAYS, 12:00-1:30pm (ET)
Dates: Nov. 5, 12, 19; Dec. 3, 10, 17; Jan. 7, 14, 21
