Discover how faith and science together illuminate life’s meaning in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s The Great Partnership.
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Tuesdays, 12:00-1:30pm (ET), October 28 -December 9, 2025
“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean. They speak different languages and use different powers of the brain.”
― Jonathan Sacks, The Great Partnership
Course Description:
In this six-week series, we will delve into selected chapters from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s The Great Partnership, a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between faith and science. Together, we will grapple with questions that lie at the heart of human identity and purpose: How do faith and science each shape our understanding of what it means to be human? Can an objective moral framework exist without belief in God? And how does Judaism, in particular, understand and embrace the role of science in human life?
Students will need to purchase Rabbi Sacks’s The Great Partnership here.
Come ready for lively discussion, deep reflection, and the discovery of how two seemingly different ways of knowing can illuminate one another.
TUESDAYS, 12:00 - 1:30pm (ET)
Marina Zilbergerts is an author and scholar of Jewish literature and thought who has a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her works include "The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature" (Indiana University Press, 2022); a poetry collection entitled "You Were Adam" (Wipf and Stock, 2023); and a forthcoming book titled "Genesis: The Origin Story of Human Consciousness." She was formerly a professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and she now teaches at the University of Ottawa.
