AishDas Emunah and Mussar Summer Workshops for Teenagers in Monsey
Eight-hour (four two-hour sessions) workshops (separate for girls and boys) are now open for registration.
It
is no secret that high school students across the spectrum of
Orthodoxy have questions and issues that often remain unanswered over
the course of the school year. These are questions of Emunah (basic
and core beliefs and the evidence of their authenticity) and Mussar
(purpose and meaning in life). These will be addressed in the
workshop. Moreover, often during the school year open questions and
questioning are discouraged. The workshop will allow and address any
and all questions that participants raise.
Topics
that will be addressed will include:
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The Evidence for the existence of God.
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Evidence of the divine origin of Torah.
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The Age of the Universe and Evolution.
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The 13 Core Beliefs of the Rambam.
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The purpose, mission and destiny of the individual, of society and of the universe.
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The happiness of Emunah and Bitachon.
The
workshops will meet weekly in July. The cost is
$54.00 per
participant. To
register, or
for more information, please
call 845.481.0613 or email ygb@aishdas.org.
The
workshops will be led by Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer.
Rabbi
Bechhofer has served as a Rav,
Maggid Shiur, Rebbe
and Rosh Kollel
in the Chicago and New York areas.
Rabbi
Bechhofer is one of the few individuals to have served as Maggid
Shiur for both Daf
Yomi Bavli and
Daf Yomi Yerushalmi, completing
both. He is also a senior lecturer for the Aishdas
Society, an association devoted to more profound understanding and
experience of all aspects of Talmud
Torah and Avodas
Hashem. He has served as a guest
Maggid Shiur,
scholar in residence, and lecturer in numerous venues, including
Alberta, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, Ohio, Ontario, New Jersey, New York, Quebec,
Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin, Israel
and England.
Rabbi
Bechhofer
is a prolific author. He
has served as a writer and editor for Artscroll/Mesorah, and has
published many essays in several
major
Jewish periodicals and
journals.
His published seforim
are: The
Contemporary Eruv:
Eruvin
in Modern Metropolitan Areas,
Bigdei
Shesh on
Bava
Basra,
and Bigdei
Shesh
on Sefer
Shoftim.
Well over one thousand tapes of his lectures and
shiurim
(including the entire Yerushalmi)
are available online
in
audio
and video formats
(see his
blog, rygb.blogspot.com,
for
links).
Rabbi
Bechhofer learned in many yeshivos,
including Sha’alvim, Ner Yisroel (Baltimore)
and
both
Mirrer yeshivos
(Jerusalem
and Brooklyn).
He received Semicha
from Rabbi Yitzchok Koolitz, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and Rabbi
Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, Av
Beis Din
of Jerusalem. He holds an M.S. in Education (concentration in
Counseling and Guidance) from Johns Hopkins University.
The
AishDas Society (aishdas.org)
empowers Jews to utilize their observance in a process for building
thoughtful and passionate relationships with their Creator, other
people and themselves. To do so, we offer unique programs,
educational events and a supportive community and help other
organizations develop programs and curricula.
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