FALL 26 SERIES

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When Hasidic Torah Speaks Again:

Encounters with the Masters - Cycle IV

A live, interactive series led by
R. Prof. Elie Holzer
 

This series invites participants into close and dialogical encounters with teachings by a range of Hasidic masters, centered on Rosh Hashanah and selected weekly parashot.

Rather than following a single theme, each pair of sessions will open a distinct spiritual world—its images, questions, tensions, and possibilities for avoda. Through reading, listening, discussion, and lingering with the texts, we will explore how Hasidic Torah may become present again: not as a ready-made answer, but as a living invitation to renewed perception, spiritual responsiveness, and Jewish becoming.

You are warmly invited to learn with the Hasidic masters, and with one another.

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The underlying concept of our learning is that close, attuned, and dialogical engagement with Hasidic drashot and their spiritual poetics unlocks wellsprings for our individual spiritual avoda.
Such reading is a practice that allows us to slow down, engage deeply with a given Hasidic text, and pay attention to the poetics and imagery opened by language. We mix intellect, imagination, and emotion in each session. We learn to bring a fresh mind to reading, and we develop a creative, actively engaged relationship with our own and our colleagues' insights. In doing so, we reconnect to ancient Jewish spiritual traditions of transformative reading.
To facilitate our learning process, we seek to dedicate two sessions for each drasha. Drashot will be selected from a variety of Hasidic masters.