This month I interviewed Hebrew Seminary faculty member Rabbi Cantor Rob Jury.
Since your May 2012 ordination from Hebrew Seminary, your career has taken two paths – Rabbi of Anshe Tikvah in Wheeling and Staff Chaplain at Advocate’s Addiction Treatment Program. Can you tell us how one led to the other and how your Hebrew Seminary education prepared you?
I see them as one single path […]
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that silence connects the Torah portion B’midbar and the celebration of Shavuot. It is the silence of the desert that counts in Judaism. “Listening is the supreme religious art.” Having said that, Sacks reminds us that in Exodus 24:7, “’All that God says, we will do and we will hear [ve-nishma].’ It is the nishma – listening, hearing, heeding, responding […]
Rabbi Cantor Rob Jury returns this semester with a practical rabbinics class, Shabbat Liturgy, and Rabbi Daniel Vaisrub is offering a “companion” Talmud class, Ancient & Modern Approaches to […]
By Hebrew Seminary President Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer
When I was ordained as a rabbi in 1972, there was one person who had more influence on me than any other human being. It wasn’t my wife. I wasn’t married yet. It wasn’t my mother. She was living in Canada. It wasn’t God. It wasn’t any rabbi. The person who had the most influence on my […]
From the Pen of Executive Director Alison C. Brown
Parsha Tezaveh discusses the materials and steps necessary to perform service to God in the Sanctuary. As a metaphor, “Achieving any form of spiritual growth requires sustained effort and daily rituals.” [1] We call this avodah, service. Our intentional efforts and rituals create a space, a groove, carved into our life through practice that allows a […]
From the Pen of Executive Director Alison C. Brown
It is said that the tabernacle described in Exodus is a metaphor for our inner realms, the way our spirit works together with our mind to negotiate life. Parsha Terumah delineates the myriad details necessary to construct the Tabernacle. Commentators note, “God’s presence is not found in a building. It is found in the hearts and […]
Learn to hear the still small Voice of God.
Experience the ease of your Greater Mind.
It takes practice.
Be inspired to practice. In his online video course, Enriching Your Life Through Kabbalah, Hebrew Seminary President Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer will teach you how to access higher levels of consciousness and draw on the energies found there.
The course is free!
Registration and related course information about this remarkable […]
By Hebrew Seminary President Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer
Our Torah portion this week, called Mishpatim, identifies the theory of reincarnation in many of our Judaisms. Our Torah portion begins, “These are the judgments that you shall place before them. “ According to the Kabbalah, and the Divine Rabbi who wrote the ZOHAR , Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, this verse means “This is the order of […]
Our lab school, Congregation Bene Shalom invites you to join them for Saturday morning Kabbalistic services. These services are quite wonderful in that they offer not only scholarship in Jewish meditation but Rabbi Dr. Douglas Goldhamer also makes every effort to compare Jewish meditation with other meditation systems.
All are welcome! Saturdays at 10:30 am:
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We founded Hebrew Seminary on the principles of inclusion and equality. We at Hebrew Seminary join with other Jewish religious institutions throughout the United States in condemning President Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from seven Muslim countries. We find discrimination against any religion to be antithetical to our Torah and to the beliefs of our founding fathers.
In 1779, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison proposed […]