Kiddushin 29a
The Talmud says that you must teach your children Torah, how to make a living and how to swim.
At Hebrew Seminary, under the leadership of Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer, we have been teaching these skills for 25 years!
We teach Torah to rabbinical students who wish to learn and teach Torah forevermore.
We prepare students to make a living by Shiviti Hashem l’negdi tamid, always […]
“Practical Applications of Kabbalah for Your Daily Life”
A ten-session class
With Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer
Sundays, February 25 – May 6
12:00 – 1:30pm
Kabbalah has many important practical applications that can impact your life on a daily basis – your health, your finances, your relationships with others. Learn how to connect with Hashem, and activate the Divine within you. In this class, noted scholar and author Rabbi […]
Thank you so much to broadcast journalist Andrew Roesgen!
We all know the story of Hanukkah. But, there is another narrative that many of us don’t know. Last week, Hebrew Seminary faculty member Rabbi Daniel Vaisrub taught us a lesser known story that prominently features Adam.
The better known Hanukkah story is derived from the Babylonia Talmud, Shabbat 21b. The text tells us that the Greeks entered our Temple and defiled all of the […]
It is not the going up
that interests me,
not the view from Heaven
nor the view from Tuesday—
today is struggle enough.
And I am downright fearful
of going down,
with its trickster promise of return
and illusion of solid ground.
Down is done backwards, after all,
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by Alison C. Brown, Executive Director
Fear not, while it currently feels as though some of our world leaders have purposefully severed our ancestral roots, I suspect every generation feels that way.
Parashah Toldot is a Jewish narrative about our ancestral roots and serves as another installment in the guide to being fully human. Together with the many Jewish texts redacted and commented upon over the […]
SKOKIE, IL, November 6, 2017 – Tirtzah Israel, from Chicago’s West-Englewood Community, was ordained by Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer on October 29th at Hebrew Seminary Rabbinical School for Deaf and Hearing. Growing up, Tirtzah’s grandmother role-modeled a personal and meditative connection to HaShem that both perplexed and inspired her. As an adult Tirtzah was introduced […]
Lech Lecha, Genesis 12-17:27
The opening scripture of this week’s Torah portion Lech Lecha, “Go forth from your native land, from your kindred, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” (Gen. 12:1) has a number of different translations and meanings. In the literal translation of the text, God calls Abram (this takes place before his name is changed to […]
Sefer Assiyah
The Book of Making
September 2017
Recently, on an extraordinarily mild and sunny day in Chicagoland, I went to a nature center with my son and grandson. We peered and searched through aquariums, terrariums and pools of water — home to local critters. We spent a lot of time with the turtles – who knew they were such adept communicators when stressed out with their […]
