Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Wolkoff

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Join Rabbi Wolkoff for his weekly Lunch and Learn. Lunch is at 12pm, followed by a spirited learning session.  Please RSVP to the office, so we know how many to expect. This year’s topic:

Parsha and Poetry

When we study Torah, we almost always read it as prose. But in its expressive power and abbreviated style, it is much more like poetry. This year, we will use modern poetry about the Torah to deepen—really deepen—our understanding of the Torah and of ourselves.

Our sessions will begin with a Classical Caterer lunch ($12, please rsvp to the office), followed by one hour of study and sharing. We will meet every Wednesday, with lunch at 12 PM and class beginning at 12:30.

Please join us for a unique and remarkable journey.

Here’s a sample of what we will be learning tomorrow:

“Surely, this mitzvah which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach….No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.” Deuteronomy 30:11-14

Torah
Barbara D. Holender

Even when you hold it in your arms,
you have not grasped it.
Wrapped and turned in upon itself
the scroll says, Not yet.

Even when you take them into your eyes,
you have not seen them; elegant
in their crowns the letters stand aloof.

Even when you taste them in your mouth
and roll them on your tongue
or bite the sharp unyielding strokes
they say, Not yet.

And when the sounds pour from your throat
and reach deep into your lungs for breath,
even then the words say, Not quite.

But when your heart knows its own hunger
and your mind is seized and shaken,
and in the narrow space between the lines
your soul builds its nest,

Now, says Torah, now
you begin to understand.

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