Thu, May 17, 2012 /       View Shabbat / Jewish Calendar

JewishBoston.com

Login

Registered users, please login:

or Cancel

Not a member, but want to join?

Register as a Guest

To sign up for an event as a guest, enter your info

or Cancel

All fields marked with a red asterisk (*) are required.
Wed
Jul
07
Ma'ayan: Torah Studies Initiative for Women
Already Occurred

Poetry and Tragedy: Midrashic Themes of Tisha b’Av with Rabbi Reuven Cohn

Already Occurred
Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, 35 Morseland Ave,
Newton, MA 02459

Instructor: Rabbi Reuven Z. Cohn
No prior text-study experience required.

Many of the piyutim (liturgical poems) that we recite on Tisha b'Av were written in Israel over a thousand years ago. Despite the stature of the paytanim (pious religious poets), their creations often strike the modern ear as wooden and all but inaccessible. This course will aim to recover the beauty and power of these liturgical poems by tracing motifs from the Tanakh through the Talmud and Midrash and considering how they have been selected and molded by the paytanim. Each week we will explore a seemingly obscure theme-from the murder of an otherwise unknown prophet to the on-going practice of the priestly rotations, which continued even after the Temple's destruction. We will also consider a modern piyut that responds to the Holocaust. Students will understand the issues that the paytanim considered relevant to Tisha b'Av and will come away able to connect this ancient poetry to modern religious concerns.

Wednesdays, 8:00 - 9:15 PM
4 Sessions: July 7, 14, 21, 28
Location: Congregation Shaarei Tefillah
Tuition: $65
Open to men and women

 

Other upcoming events from this organization

Sun
May
20
Day of Study: Torat Eretz Yisrael--Conversations with the Golah (Diaspora)
8:45AM - 3:30PM

Day of Study: Torat Eretz Yisrael--Conversations with the Golah (Diaspora)

Cost: $36.00 General Admission - Registration is required.
May 20, 2012—08:45 AM to 03:30 PM
Maimonides School, 34 Philbrick Road,
Brookline, MA 02445
This event is kosher. This event is wheelchair accessible.
Join Ma'ayan on Yom Yerushalayim to explore the conversation about Israel that Jewish communities in Israel and the Diaspora have been carrying on for millenia.   SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 8:45 Check-in & Coffee 9:30 Breakout Sessions I   Dr. Baruch Barzel Co...

Organizer

Roselyn Farren
617-581-6831

Ma'ayan: Torah Studies Initiative for Women

Ma'ayan: Torah Studies Initiative for Women

An award-winning community-based program, Ma'ayan provides women in the Greater Boston area with a setting for intensive Jewish text study.