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Beth Ahm To Show
Sacred Journeys Series
Congregation Beth Ahm in West
Bloomfield welcomes lifelong learn-
ers to enjoy a six-part series on DVD,
Sacred Journeys, featuring author
Bruce Feiler at 1 p.m. Wednesday
afternoons starting March 11.
The series premiered on PBS last
December and describes six historic
religious pilgrimages around the
world, traveling with American pil-
grims on their journeys of faith to
India, Japan, France, Nigeria, Israel
and Saudi Arabia.
Bruce Feiler is the author of six
consecutive New York Times best-
sellers, including Walking the Bible
and Abraham. He is also the writer/
presenter of the PBS series Walking
the Bible, which Beth Ahm plans to
screen for its DVD learning group
later this year.
The series is free and open to the
community. No reservations are
required and walk-ins are welcome.
Sacred Journeys is designed to
complement a 24-part course on
DVD recently screened at Beth
Ahm, Cultural Literacy for Religion:
Everything the Well-Educated Person
Should Know
Beth Ahm's weekly drop-in lifelong
learning series "Drop In & Learn on
DVD" is now in its seventh year. New
students are welcome. The group
watches DVDs on Jewish history,
theology, philosophy and culture as
well as religion in general and con-
temporary events relating to Israel
and Judaism. All are welcome. For
details, contact the group's facilitator,
Nancy Kaplan, at (248) 737-1931 or
by email, nancyellen879@att.net .
Jews, Chaldeans To Share
Holiday Recipes And Demo
Jews and Chaldeans will come
together to socialize and for a potluck
and cooking demonstration of tasty,
healthy foods for Passover and Easter
from 5-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March
10, at Henry Ford West Bloomfield
Hospital.
In honor of Read Across America
Month, participants are asked to
bring new or gently used books for
needy students. Participants also are
asked to bring a dish to pass for the
potluck from 5-6:15 p.m.
Guest speakers include Ellen
Maiseloff, director of the Jewish
Federation's Opening the Doors
program, and Melody Arabo, 2014
Michigan Teacher of the Year.
Co-chairs of the event are Gail Katz
and Rula Yono, Building Community
Initiative social action co-chairs.
Building Community was started
by the IN and the Chaldean News,
co-sponsors of the event with Henry
Ford West Bloomfield Hospital.
To RSVP, contact Katz at (248) 978-
6664 or gailkatz@comcast.net or call,
or Yono at rula@chaldeanfederation.
org or (248) 872-7013.
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Kabbalah — it's a word often heard in the the trainees' efforts to experience God on
news, uttered by celebrities who say they
an intimate basis.
embrace the movement, but exactly what
Prophetic Kabbalah, experts say, often
is it?
leads to ecstatic or out-of-body
Kabbalah is the most com-
experiences, and it contains
monly used term for the mysti-
detailed instructions for meditative
cal teaching of Judaism. Its fol-
practices, as well as philosophical
lowers believe that by studying
explanations of what is going on
Judaism's laws and understand-
when those practices work.
ing the hidden meanings of the
Rechnitzer will explore how
Hebrew bible they can achieve
the trainees of the Kabbalah try
a union with God.
to reach a supreme spiritual level,
Rabbi Ha im
Rabbi Haim 0. Rechnitzer,
comparable to that of a prophet or
Rechnitz er
an associate professor of mod-
supra-philosopher, and by reach-
ern Jewish thought at Hebrew Union
ing that level, they will experience God on
College-Jewish Institute of Religion in
a more intimate basis.
Cincinnati, will look at Kabbalah when
Prior to joining HUC-JIR, Rechnitzer
he presents, "Prophecy, Ecstasy and the
was on the faculty at Franklin and
Kabbalah:' Tuesday, March 10, at 7 p.m.
Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. He also
in the Tower Room of McKenny Hall, on
served on the faculties of Kedem Teachers
Eastern Michigan University's campus in
College, Sapir College and Hebrew
Ypsilanti.
University, all in Israel, in the fields of
The event, sponsored by Eastern
modern Jewish and Israeli thought and
Michigan's Jewish Studies program, is free political theology. He earned his doctorate
and open to the public.
from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and
A renowned scholar and teacher with
his rabbinical ordination from HUC-JIR
an expertise in political theology and
in Jerusalem, both in 2003.
modern Jewish and Israeli thought,
For more information, contact Jewish.
Rechnitzer will talk about the trainees of
studies®emich.edu.
the Prophetic/Ecstatic Kabbalah School,
which started in 13th-century Spain, and
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