This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines Ezekiel (“Yechezkel”), the seventh book of the Prophets. Speaking from Babylonian exile during the First Temple’s destruction, Ezekiel often symbolically performs prophecies, like binding himself with cord to emphasize Israel’s stubbornness and shaving his hair to symbolize impending doom. Among other topics, he focuses on […]

By Temple Sinai Reb Ari Shapiro This ongoing course every Thursday is based on Maimonides' masterpiece, The Guide for the Perplexed. This twelfth-century philosopher was asking the same questions that modern Judaism is asking: How should we describe God? What is so important about monotheism? If God created the universe, why is there evil? His […]

This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines the text in Job that deals with the anguished attempts by Job and his comrades to understand the ways of God which have perplexed, stimulated, and inspired thinkers and philosophers for thousands of years. The ideas are at the heart of the age-old question: Why […]

This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines Ezekiel (“Yechezkel”), the seventh book of the Prophets. Speaking from Babylonian exile during the First Temple’s destruction, Ezekiel often symbolically performs prophecies, like binding himself with cord to emphasize Israel’s stubbornness and shaving his hair to symbolize impending doom. Among other topics, he focuses on […]

By Temple Sinai Reb Ari Shapiro This ongoing course every Thursday is based on Maimonides' masterpiece, The Guide for the Perplexed. This twelfth-century philosopher was asking the same questions that modern Judaism is asking: How should we describe God? What is so important about monotheism? If God created the universe, why is there evil? His […]

This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines the text in Job that deals with the anguished attempts by Job and his comrades to understand the ways of God which have perplexed, stimulated, and inspired thinkers and philosophers for thousands of years. The ideas are at the heart of the age-old question: Why […]

This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines Ezekiel (“Yechezkel”), the seventh book of the Prophets. Speaking from Babylonian exile during the First Temple’s destruction, Ezekiel often symbolically performs prophecies, like binding himself with cord to emphasize Israel’s stubbornness and shaving his hair to symbolize impending doom. Among other topics, he focuses on […]

By Temple Sinai Reb Ari Shapiro This ongoing course every Thursday is based on Maimonides' masterpiece, The Guide for the Perplexed. This twelfth-century philosopher was asking the same questions that modern Judaism is asking: How should we describe God? What is so important about monotheism? If God created the universe, why is there evil? His […]

This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines the text in Job that deals with the anguished attempts by Job and his comrades to understand the ways of God which have perplexed, stimulated, and inspired thinkers and philosophers for thousands of years. The ideas are at the heart of the age-old question: Why […]

This 20-week Zoom course presented by Reb Ari Shapiro examines Ezekiel (“Yechezkel”), the seventh book of the Prophets. Speaking from Babylonian exile during the First Temple’s destruction, Ezekiel often symbolically performs prophecies, like binding himself with cord to emphasize Israel’s stubbornness and shaving his hair to symbolize impending doom. Among other topics, he focuses on […]

By Temple Sinai Reb Ari Shapiro This ongoing course every Thursday is based on Maimonides' masterpiece, The Guide for the Perplexed. This twelfth-century philosopher was asking the same questions that modern Judaism is asking: How should we describe God? What is so important about monotheism? If God created the universe, why is there evil? His […]