Past Classes

Birthing and Dying: Jewishly (re)imagining life’s many beginnings and endings

3 weeks

Mondays: 3:30-5:00 pm ET / 12:30-2:00 pm PT

May 20 · May 27 · June 3

For many people, the thought of witnessing a birth or a death can radically shake up our perception of what role we want tradition or spiritually to play in our lives. We want more! We want less! We don’t know what we want! And for something so obviously ubiquitous (we were all born and we all will one day die), it’s jarring how birth and death tend to happen out of sight and at the margins.

My father died soon after my child was born. Each experience taught me so much about the other. And each experience led on a journey of learning and yearning for more- more tradition and more practices to fill the gaps where the tradition was not looking.