[trees-list] Tikkun tonight; Friday Oneg; Israel; end of Aguust Chasidishe egaldavennen

[daseidenberg@JTSA.EDU]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I hope I'll be seeing many of you tonight at the all-Berkeley Tikkun
(all-night Torah study) at the JCC.  I'll beteaching at 9:15 ("Studying
Torah Is Like Being Naked: Sotah 20") and then in the late late night ("The
Alter Rebbe's Mystical Vision of the Earth").  I'll also be doing a
two-session class at Lehrhaus next week on Navigating the Talmud (assuming
we have enough folks signed up -- please follow the url below if you're
interested in the class!)

Then I'll be off to Israel the following week through most of the summer.
I'll be meeting up with the Berkeley Sulha delegation and doing some other
study.  I'm really excited about going, and as excited about coming back to
Berkeley.  I want to give you all a heads-up that Brian Schacter and I are
planning a renewal + traditional + chasidishe + sweet and spirited davenning
at Chochmat Halev at the end of August (either the 22nd or the 29th -- we
are taking votes on that), and it's going to be a real fusion of worlds and
energy.  We are both realy excited about doing this together.

Finally, I want to invite you to come to an oneg Shabbat with kiddush and
hamotsi at the brand new home of Liora Kahn and Devorah Levy this Friday
night at 9:30 PM.  This is not quite a housewarming, since they haven't
finished setting up yet (expect boxes and moving energy), but it is a chance
to see their beautiful space (third housemate wanted) and also a chance to
do some nigunim for Shabbat and hang together before I leave for Israel.
Their address is 2600 Virginia St., directly across from the North Berkeley
BART station.

Blessed be, chag sameach!

David Seidenberg
510-219-5834
reply to: rebduvid86@hotmail.com

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additional info:

bay are -Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
June 5, 7 PM - June 6, 8 AM  2003
from Ma'ariv to Shacharit
Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley

Lehrhuas course:

Enroll at http://www.lehrhaus.org/courses/text.html#D200-LJ

"Navigating the Talmud"

D200-LJ Our task and pleasure in this two-session course will be to become
oriented to the Talmud as a genre, a phenomenon, and a text. We will look at
the structure of Mishnah and at the nature of oral tradition to see why the
rabbis needed to create a Talmud. Using sections from earlier midrash and
easy sug'yot (sections), we will develop a sense of the playfulness and
meaningfulness that is the Talmudic process. In the course of examining some
of the types of texts and discussions in the Talmud we will answer questions
like, What is the Talmud? How did it come into being? Why do students of
Talmud call it an "ocean"? We will orient ourselves to the Talmud page
including Rashi and Tosafot, to the concepts of Halakhah and Aggadah, and to
basic vocabulary, and enjoy the idea of conversations happening over many
centuries.

DAVID SEIDENBERG, Ph.D., has studied the theology of nature in Jewish
thought for 20 years. He holds a doctorate focusing on ecology, midrash and
Kabbalah from JTS. He taught Talmud at the Beit Midrash of the Jewish
Theological Seminary and the Melton program in Seattle, and now teaches
throughout the Bay Area and North America. His work can be found in Trees,
Earth, and Torah and Torah of the Earth, as well as in the forthcoming
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.

2 sessions: Monday and Wednesday, June 9 and 11, 7:00-9:00 PM

Tuition: $40; $25/full-time students; $25/Learning for Life (age 65+)

Site:  Lehrhaus Judaica, 2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley