GOD OF OUR MOTHERS: WHAT OUR MATRIARCHS TEACH US ABOUT CONNECTING TO GOD (HADAR - PROJECT ZUG)

Description

What our matriarchs teach us about meeting God.

Location

ONLINE

Date & Time

TUESDAYS, 10-11:30pm (ET) Dec. 1, 8, 15

"This world of women's experience is part of the Jewish world, part of the fuller Torah we need to recover." 

 

-- Judith Plaskow

 

Course Description :

In this course, we will explore what these matriarchs teach us about connecting to God. Each mother – Hannah, Rachel, Sarah and Hagar – offers a different perspective on how we might understand God and our relationship with God. Perhaps most powerfully, their stories open up the metaphor for relating to God as “Mother.” While this course does indeed center matriarchs and the maternal experience, the wisdom it offers is for everyone, regardless of gender identity. 

TUESDAYS, 10-11:30am (ET)

Dates: Dec. 1, 8, 15

About the Instructor:

 Rachel Benaim-Abudarham is the new Assistant Director of Adult Learning at CAJE. She is a storyteller, scholar, and award-winning journalist passionate about bringing Jewish history to life. A third-year PhD student researching how Jewish communities have transmitted wisdom and burdens across generations, Rachel specializes in the lived experiences of diaspora Jews.

For more than a decade, Rachel has traveled the world reporting on religion, migration, and cultural memory for outlets such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz, and The Weather Channel. Her work invites readers, and now students, to see the Jewish journey not through hardship, but through meaning and joy.

Rachel holds degrees from Columbia University and Yeshiva University, with additional studies at Oxford, NYU, and institutions in Jerusalem and Stockholm. She is thrilled to share stories of the “other 2,000 years” of Jewish life and help learners discover new perspectives about our global heritage. 

A South Florida native, she recently moved back to Boca Raton with her husband and two kids. 

 
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