Seasons & Reasons: Fall Holidays

Speaker: Avi West

Series: Jewish Enrichment

Date: September 17, 2019

Location: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD 

In this fall session, we explore the universal themes of creation/stewardship, redemption and forgiveness, gratitude, and what's really important in life. We will then see how the particular rituals and texts associated with the Jewish fall holidays, (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret), provide perspectives - some 3,500 years in the making - for wrestling with these themes.

This is not a “how to celebrate” class; rather, it frames rituals as responses to the human condition, which we benefit from by revisiting each year.