HerTorah: “What’s To Come?” Series — RECONSIDERING PRAYER
Reimagining Our Future: What Could Our Jewish World Look Like Post-COVID?
Living through a pandemic has brought many changes to our lives and to the ways we relate to our Jewish traditions + institutions. What are some of the Jewish ritual + institutional changes that have unfolded during these times? How did those changes open up new opportunities in thinking about what our Jewish world + practice might look like?
Join us as we think and learn together about what our post-Covid Jewish world might look like.
WEDNESDAY, 2/17 @ 8:15-9:30PM EST
We are grateful to be joined by Rabba Dina Brawer and Rabbanit Leah Sarna for this first part of our new HerTorah series. The co-hosts of the new PrayerFull podcast will use this moment as an opportunity to explore our relationship to prayer.
Longtime havrutas Rabba Dina Brawer and Rabbanit Leah Sarna channel their passion for prayer with PrayerFull: the guided prayer podcast. Each episode focuses on a theme, such as renewal, wonder, gratitude, and weaves together song, kavanot, and prayers.
Rabbanit Leah Sarna loves traditional prayer, synagogue life and Jewish music. Her areas of interest include Talmud, Halakha and the empowerment of Jewish women and teens. She is the Assistant Director of Education and Director of High School Programs at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education.
Rabba Dina Brawer draws on her personal experience of prayer outside traditional settings as inspiration for PrayerFull. Her areas of interest include social change, the nexus between religion and gender, values within the halakhic system, and hasidut. She currently serves as Recruitment and Admissions Director for Yeshivat Maharat and lectures in Talmud at Tufts University.
HerTorah gathers together a diverse community of Jewish women to connect over our shared heritage, explore our collective wisdom, and elevate our communal experience in learning with and from one another.
HerTorah is directed by Rabbanit Aliza Sperling, made possible in part by funds granted by the Covenant Foundation & the Aviv Foundation, presented in partnership with Maharat, and inspired by each one of us.
This gathering welcomes women* 12+ and learners of all backgrounds.
SVIVAH is dependent on the generosity of those who choose to invest in a powerful community of women. As always, cost should never be a barrier to anything SVIVAH, but if you can, please help us show respect to our speakers/facilitators for their time and expertise. www.svivah.org/donate
Questions about ZOOM or about this gathering? Email connect@svivah.org
*SVIVAH defines "Jewish woman" as anyone wishing to be included in a circle of Jewish women. If you want to be here, we want you to be here.
