Series 1 - Tuesday Morning Community Program
All community shiurim are $10 per class, $36 per series, or $100 for all 3 series.
To sponsor a class/series, contact Sarah Emerson Helfand at semerson@yu.edu or (646) 246-5332

Tuesdays 9:30 – 11am

July 6 -Opening Shiur, Rabbi Shaul Robinson
What the Three Weeks Mean Today

July 13, 27 -Mrs. Deena Rabinovich
The Heavens and the Earth Cannot Contain You: The Temple Challenge

Join us as we explore the three stories of Moshe, David and Shlomo trying to build a Sanctuary for the Divine.
 

11am – 12 pm
The Aggadot (Rabbinic Tales) of Destruction
Mrs. Lisa Septimus

Evening Beit Midrash,Tues./Wed. 6-8pm
Learn with the Beit Midrash Fellows in Chavruta
Contact Talia.Cottrell@gmail.com to sign up.

Series II - Tuesday Evenings
Experiencing the Three Weeks
8-9pm

July 6
The King and the Matrona: Midrashic Sources on Hurban
Mrs. Simi Peters

Co-sponsored by American Friends of Nishmat.

July 13
Destruction and Reconstruction: Why do we read Haftara Hazon before Tisha B'Av?

Professor Smadar Rosensweig

July 20 – Tish’a B’Av

July 27
The Experience of the Yamim Noraim: Holidays or Days of Awe?
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter

Series III - Wednesday Evenings
Approaching the High Holidays
8-9pm

July 7
Passionate Prayer: The Risks and Rewards of Praying Intensely
Rabbi Dr. David Flatto

July 14
Biblical Motifs of Returning: Jeremiah 31 as a Rosh Hashana Theme
Rabbi Allen Schwartz

July 21
Finite Beings Speak to an Infinite God: Toward a More Nuanced View of Jewish Prayer
Rabbi Ozer Glickman

July 28
Yom Kippur Without a Scapegoat
Mrs. Yael Leibowitz

Youth Programming
All youth programming is $10 per session.

Chevruta Program • Tues/Wed, 5-6pm  

Elementary, middles school and high school girls are invited to learn one on one with a member of the Beit Midrash.

Pizza and Parsha • Thurs, 5-6pm
1-5^th grade girls and boys are invited to learn about the parsha. Come for the Torah, stay for the pizza!
 

For all youth program inquiries, contact
Talia Cottrell at Talia.Cottrell@gmail.com

Morning

Mon/Wed/Thurs
9am – 12:00pm

Masechet Rosh Hashana:
The Laws of Shofar

Rabbi Moshe Kahn

Lunchtime
Mon/Wed, 1 – 2:30pm
Chabura

July 7
Mitzvah Haba'ah B'Aveira:A Mitzvah that Results From Sin? Mrs. Lisa Septimus

July 12, 14

Is Jewish Law about Doing the Right the Thing or the Halakhic Thing? Ethics and Morality in Halakhah

Rabbi Ozer Glickman

July 19, 21, 26, 28

Intro to Academic Talmud

Mrs. Elana Stein Hain

Special Shiur

Tues., July 13 12:30 - 2pm
U'Netaheh Tokef:
Understanding the Martyrological, Midrashic and Talmudic Roots
Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the David Mitzner Dean, CJF

Afternoon

Mon/Tues/Wed, 3 - 5 pm

Tanach
 

A Guide to the Summer Haftarot: From the Depths of Despair to the Heights of Joy
Rabbi Gideon Rothstein

The haftarot that sandwich Tish'a B'Av offer us the heights of rebuke as well as of consolation. In studying these texts, we will remind ourselves what led to the destruction, what we can expect and hope for in the Redemption, and how we can move more quickly towards it.