SUMMER LEARNING WITH EMANU-EL SCHOLAR
RABBI LAWRENCE KUSHNER

Informal drop-in, four-session series
Tuesday evenings 7:30 - 9:00 pm

BEGINNING HEBREW FOR RANK BEGINNERS
June 24, July 15, August 5, 19
Just when you thought it was safe to squeak by on transliteration...
How to read Hebrew for people who literally don't know the difference between an aleph and beit

We will learn the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order (there's even a song for it!), and the vowels. We will discuss the legends, personalities, mystical power, and religious significance of the letters, and, of course, how to put them together into words.

In the words of the last stanza of the classic Yiddish lullabye, Oyfn Pripetchik "Az ir vet, kinder, dem goles shlepn... / When you will, children-dear, bear the exile... Zolt ir fun di oysyes koyekh shepn... / from the letters you will draw strength....

Text: TEACH YOURSELF TO READ HEBREW (REVISED EDITION), Ethelyn Simon & Joseph Anderson, EKS Publishing, 2002.
SOUNDS OF HEBREW FLASHCARDS Ethelyn Simon & Joseph Anderson, EKS Publishing, 2002.

Also Recommended:
THE BOOK OF LETTERS: A MYSTICAL HEBREW ALEF-BAIT: SEFER OTIYOT, Lawrence Kushner, Jewish Lights, 1975.
Text fee: $24 (You must register to be guaranteed your copy of the text.)

Register online, or call the Adult Education line at (415) 751-2541 x 213 or emailing adultlearning@emanuelsf.org

MARTIN BUBER ON THE BIBLE, HASIDISM, ISRAEL, AND JUDAISM
July 8, 29, Aug 12, 26
Four Essays by the most important Liberal Jewish thinker of the Twentieth Century.

Each session we will read and discuss one essay (about 15 pages; c'mon, even you can do that!)

Text: THE MARTIN BUBER READER, ed. Asher Biemann, Palgrave-MacMillian, 2002, (paper).

In order to hit the ground running, for our first session July 8, please read: "The Man of Today and the Jewish Bible" (1936) pp. 51-60.

Texts should be available in the Temple office for all registered students by the end of June.

And, even if you don't have time to read the essay, since when has that stopped Jews from entering the argument!

This is a drop-in series of informal discussions. Even if you can only attend one session, please join us. (You can still read the other essays by yourself on the beach.)

Text fee: $24 (You must register to be guaranteed your copy of the text.)

Register online, or call the Adult Education line at (415) 751-2541 x 213 or emailing adultlearning@emanuelsf.org

KABBALAH: A LOVE STORY

Rabbi Kushner's first novel

Four years in the making! Soon to be a major motion picture! (Hey, it could happen.) After sixteen books of non-fiction, Rabbi Kushner's first novel. KABBALAH: A LOVE STORY is the fable of a rabbi who accidentally discovers a hidden, lost page to the Zohar (the master text of Kabbalah) and what that discovery does to his life and the life of a woman he doesn't (yet) know he loves who teaches astronomy at Columbia University. A short selection from the first chapter and endorsements are available on www.kabbalahalovestory.com.