Selichot Learning Session w/ Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss
In person & online
Open to members & non-members
Join us as we welcome Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss as our scholar for our Selichot learning session.
Wake Up Each Morning and Choose Hope
As we approach Rosh Hashanah and the Ten Days of Repentance after a heartbreaking, harrowing year, how can we cultivate the capacity to hope? How can we muster the ability to believe that we can be better people and that the world can be a better place? Ghadir Hani, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and an award-winning peace activist, said in a November 2023 webinar on trauma: “So how can hope grow in these fields of blood and trauma?…We must wake each morning and choose healing, comfort, empathy, and hope.” We will explore a range of biblical teachings about hope that offer us insight and inspiration as we enter the new year.
About Rabbi Weiss
Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D. is Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost and Associate Professor of Bible at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She is the founder of the American Values, Religious Voices campaign, co-editor of American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters (University of Cincinnati Press, 2019) and American Values, Religious Voices: Letters of Hope from People of Faith (Vol. 2, 2023), and associate editor of The Torah: A Women's Commentary (CCAR Press, 2008). Her other writings include Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel (Brill, 2006) and articles on metaphor, biblical poetry, and biblical conceptions of God.
