Rav Shai and special guest, Dr. David Bernat, will be our teachers for Pesah U this year. You may remember Dr. Bernat from last year’s “Israel in Perspective” series and Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Dr. David Bernat is a consultant in Outreach and Development with JALSA, The Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action. He has a Ph.D. in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Brandeis, is the author of Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Priestly Tradition and co-editor of Religion and Violence: The Biblical Heritage. Dr. Bernat has held faculty positions at UMass Amherst and Wellesley College, and regularly leads adult education tours to Israel with an historical and archaeological focus.

Session 1: 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

• Women of the Haggadah, with Rav Shai (also streaming on Zoom)
• What’s Love Got to Do With It? Song of Songs as Erotic Poetry for Pesah, with Dr. David Bernat

Session 2: 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM

• Secrets of the Haggadah, with Rav Shai
• What’s Love Got to Do With It? Song of Songs as Erotic Poetry for Pesah, with Dr. David Bernat (also streaming on Zoom)

Morning Service: 9:00 AM
Breakfast: 9:30 AM
Pesah U: 10:15 AM

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