Adult Learning
Learning Torah is a way of reflecting on lived experiences in the light of the Jewish tradition. At BHA, learning Torah is a core spiritual activity for children and adults. Please click on the links below to find out more about this year's classes.
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Nurture the Wow: Parenting as a Spiritual Practice (Monday Mornings, October-Feburary) - Parenthood is difficult, demanding, and draining. And yet, argues Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, if we can approach it from a different mindset, perhaps the work of parenting itself can offer the solace we seek.
- Art Green: Radical Judaism (Fall Sunday Mornings) - we’ll be looking closely at Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition, Rabbi Green opens his work by saying “...the simultaneous quest for both God and Truth presents a terrible yet wonderful conflict. It is this conflict, and my ongoing attempt to resolve it, that the book you have just opened is all about.”
- Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson (Winter Sunday Mornings) -A judge, or leader, in the hard time when “there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes,” Samson is the towering biblical hero who destroys the Philistines with superhuman strength. But reading midrashically for what is unsaid and weighing each word in the Hebrew, David Grossman, the prominent Israeli writer of Lion's Honey, finds another Samson — a lost child who is a mystery to himself, who never understands the destiny that God has thrust upon him.
- The Art of Heresy (Spring Sunday Mornings) -
Anyone can be a sinner, but it takes both knowledge and integrity to be a heretic. Join us for an exploration of two of Judaism’s most important heretics - Alisha ben Abuya and Baruch Spinoza.
Our full adult learning calendar can be seen here.
