Scholar-in-Residence: Melila Hellner-Eshed, Ph.D.
Topic: Awakening – Preparation for Elul and the High Holidays
Shabbat, Sept 6, 7 (in person)
TBZ is thrilled to welcome scholar and activist Melila Hellner-Eshed to help us consider how to approach Elul and the High Holidays after this difficult and painful year for Jewish and Palestinian people. She will speak at Friday night services, Shabbat morning service and for a Kiddush Talk on Shabbat morning. She has been a professor of Jewish mysticism and Zohar in the Department of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for over two decades. For the past three decades, she has been a central figure in the Israeli renaissance of the study of Jewish texts by Israeli adults of all paths of life in various frameworks. She has taught and worked with Jewish communities in North America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union for many years. Melila also serves on the faculty of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality in the U.S. and is active in the ‘Sulha’ – a reconciliation project that brings together Israelis and Palestinians.