Adult Education Classes

Temple Reyim's adult education program aims to provide Jewish learning in a "user-friendly environment" through the annual Kallah and a variety of courses, lectures and holiday-based programs.

Limmud Reyim May 2012 

"Women of Insight," May 1st

Please join us on May 1 at 7:30 p.m. for the second installment of our intriguing three-part series focusing on the wisdom of Biblical women. The class will focus on lesser-known figures in the Bible. What insights can these women share with the women of today? Rabbi Shalva will lead us with text and midrash study, group discussions, and smaller chavrutah study.

Attendance at prior sessions not required. Women and men welcome. Sponsored by Limmud and Sisterhood.

Temple Reyim Book Club, May 3rd

The Temple Reyim Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, May 3 at the home of Tobie Geller.  We will be discussing the book "Wherever You Go" by Joan Leegant, a local author.  Please join us.  Any questions or RSVP to Gita Foster at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The Other: Who Should Be Included in the Synagogue?, May 13th

Every synagogue must make decisions as to who can and cannot become a synagogue member. Who gets in and who has to stay on the margins? Join Rabbi Shalva for a fascinating text study as we explore the sources that speak to this topic. This will be followed by an engaging DVD lecture by Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman of the Shalom-Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

This is the last of an eight-part series on The ³Other² in Jewish Tradition: Challenges and Opportunities. Prior attendance not necessary. Meets Sunday, May 13th at 10 a.m.

Meet the Author, May 18th

In his book, Wool Over My Eyes, congregant Richard Starfield tells the story of how a trusted member of the Jewish community in Johannesburg, South Africa, swindled investors (including his own family) in the 1980s using the same Ponzi principles later used by Bernie Madoff. Richard will discuss his book and we will learn about the history of the South African Jewish community. The talk follows Kabbalat Shabbat services at 7:30 p.m., and will conclude with an Oneg Shabbat.

Tikkun Leil Shavuot, May 26th

Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the remembrance of the giving and the receiving of the Torah, provides us with an opportunity to hear a talk by congregant and Harvard Bible scholar Peter Machinist. On the one hand the Bible is a set of books that is a familiar part of our heritage and cultural landscape, but on closer inspection it often appears as something from another world and era, whose meaning and significance are not only strange, but even disconcerting and threatening. How do we get hold of the Biblical text and defamiliarize the comfortable packaging in which it is often presented to us? How to make its strangeness talk to us while at the same time respecting that very strangeness?     Peter¹s talk will be followed by additional study with Rabbi Shalva. In addition to study, please join us for refreshments, Havdallah and Ma¹ariv, starting at 8:30 p.m.

Torah Study with Rabbi Shalva and Carol Stollar continues Thursdays April 5 and 19 at 11:30 a.m.

Hebrew Conversation Club continues April 25 at 7:30 p.m. 

Biblical Hebrew continues Mondays April 9 and 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Daf Yomi continues every Saturday after Shabbat morning services

For the latest information about Limmud Reyim courses, go to www.reyim.org/adulted