HaMakor / UvA / Pardes, Amsterdam, November 25-26, 2016
Programme Kalla Jewish Spirituality
Friday November 25
9 am Reception and registration
9.30 am Rabbi Hannah Nathans, Opening Remarks
9.40 am Prof. dr. Irene Zwiep, Kabbalah in Amsterdam – an Introduction
10 am Heide Warncke MA and Ruth Peeters MA, The Kabbalistic Manuscripts of the Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos*
10.30 am Dr. David Sclar, Spiritual Purpose and Social Critique in the Pietistic Writings of Moses Hayim Luzzatto
11.30 am Coffee/tea break
12.00 Dr. Leo Mock : Spirituality in the Orthodox World
12.45 Lunch break (on your own)
2 pm Workshops**
3.15 pm Coffee/tea break
3.45-5 pm Workshops**
5.30 pm Dinner (on your own)
8 pm Kabbalat Shabbat service (upbeat)
Saturday November 26
10.30 am Meditative Shacharit Service
12.00 Rabbi Larry Tabick, Prayer and Meditation in Kabbalistic Tradition
1 pm Lunch break (on your own)
2 pm Workshops**
3.15 pm Coffee/tea break
3.45 pm Workshops**
5 pm Closing remarks and Havdalah
* In 2016 the oldest still working Jewish library in the world, Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos, attached to the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam, exists 400 years. On this occasion the Jewish Historical Museum organizes an exposition of Hebrew manuscripts: The glory of the Jewish Book.
De glorie van het Joodse boek. Go and see!
** Workshops are led by
- Daniel Beaupain: Moshe, Mussar and Leadership
- Rabbi Tamarah Benima: Dancing steps to Eternity
- Petra ter Berg BA and Cocky Fortuin-van der Spek MA: Bibliodrama as a spiritual practice
- Rabbi Lynn Feinberg, Oslo: What is Soul? Are we in the process of a paradigm shift?
- Hazan Cindy Freedman USA: Mincha: An Oasis of Spiritual Time in a Workday
- Rabbi Hannah Nathans: Jewish Meditation, ancient spiritual practices
- Hazzan Jalda Rebling, Berlijn: Singing Shirat HaYam – the song of the Sea
- Rabbi Eva Sax Bolder, USA: Spiritual aging in the 21st century
- Rabbi Larry Tabick, UK: Tikkun Ha-Nefesh – Repairing the Soul
The workshop schedule will be known in the week before the kalla.
lezingen / workshops en sprekers / workshop leiders
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