Me’ah Adult Jewish Learning Program Begins Thursdays This October!

Come to the Vilna Shul this fall and begin a journey that you will never forget!

This October the Vilna Shul is pleased to present Me'ah - an intensive learning program designed for busy adults who want to explore Jewish life, history and texts. This two-year program will take you through core Jewish texts, grappling with concepts representing cultural and political movements from four historical periods — biblical, rabbinic, medieval and modern. Build your understanding of what Jewish texts and ideas meant historically and what they mean for Jews today. No previous Jewish learning is necessary!

Click here for details and to register!

Scholarships available for participants who qualify.

Meet our instructors! Treat yourself to remarkable learning with... 

Rachel Adelman. A graduate of Matan’s master’s program in tanakh, Dr. Adelman went on to earn her PhD in Hebrew Literature (with a specialty in midrash) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2007/8 she was the Ray D. Wolfe post-doctoral fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and has served as a visiting assistant professor at Miami University, in Ohio. She teaches tanakh and midrash at Matan (the Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Study) in Jerusalem, and lectures widely in North America and England. In the fall of 2009, her first book, The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha, was published by Brill. She is currently working on her second academic book, The Female Ruse: Women’s Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible, as a research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She also teaches Hebrew Bible at Hebrew College.

Professor Adelman has a magical way of making the Hebrew Bible come alive. She is very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and approachable—class was always fascinating and fun!

Rabbi Natan Margalit, Ph.D., is spiritual leader of The Greater Washington Coalition for Jewish Life, in western Connecticut, and visiting rabbi at Congregation Adas Yoshuron, in Rockville, Maine. After graduating from Reed College with a degree in anthropology, he went on to receive rabbinic ordination at The Jerusalem Seminary and earn a Ph.D. in Talmud from the University of California, Berkeley.

$5 validated parking is available across the street from the Shul at the Charles River Parking Garage underground next to the Au Bon Pain on Cambridge Street. (You can find detailed directions here.) Please validate your green parking ticket when you arrive to the Shul. The Shul is also easily reached on the MBTA. Take the Red Line to Charles/MGH.

Programs at the Vilna Shul are open to participants of all backgrounds.

Questions? Email jessica@vilnashul.org.