JTS High Holidays Webinars 2024: Shemini Atzeret, Rain, and Resurrection
With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Adjunct Professor, JTS, and Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
The High Holiday season ends with Shemini Atzeret—the Eighth Day of Assembly. According to our tradition, on Rosh Hashanah, our fate for the coming year is written; on Yom Kippur, it is sealed; and on Shemini Atzeret, it is mailed out. This year, as we approach Shemini Atzeret, the holiday carries the weight of last year’s massacre, the war it launched, and the pain of captives carried into darkness.
In this session, we will explore the unique themes of the holiday and hold them in dialogue with this moment of brokenness, the weight of war, the complexities of peoplehood, and the ongoing need for healing and rebirth.
Session I is September 16: The first session of High Holidays Webinars 2024 is “Repentance and the Mystical ‘Rope’: The Divine-Human Relationship in Jewish Thought” with Dr. Shira Billet, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics, JTS
Session III is September 30: The third session of High Holidays Webinars 2024 is “Book Talk: Seeking the Hiding God: A Personal Theological Essay” with Dr. Arnold Eisen, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS
Note: The Zoom link will be the same for all sessions in the JTS High Holiday Webinar series. You can register one time for all sessions in this series.
