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Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh featured three scenes from the show for participants
to analyze and discuss.

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n Wednesday, July 27,
20 young adults gath-
ered at Bamboo Royal
Oak for The Well’s event “The
Torah of Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh led
the group discussion about the
famous debates between Torah
scholars Hillel and Shammai,
who are not unlike the Light
and Dark sides of the Star
Wars universe.
The group also learned
about the Pardes method of
analyzing Torah, a Hebrew
acronym that prompts the
reader to ask four questions:

Peshat: What’s going on?
Remez: What is this really
getting at? Derash: What do
you think? Sod: What is the
lesson?
With this perspective, the
group watched three scenes
from the new Obi-Wan
Kenobi show on Disney Plus
and evaluated them as historic
Torah scholars would have.
Everyone wrapped up the
evening with a few playful
fights with inflatable lightsa-
bers and raffled off some
unique Star Wars merchan-
dise.

The Torah of
Obi-Wan Kenobi

PHOTOS AND STORY PROVIDED BY THE WELL

Participants Laura Rosen, Hallie Bernstein, Jen Rothstein, and
Harrison Biederman representing the dark side.

Matthew Ungar, Katie Cassell, Steffany Ellenstein, Noah Dinkes
and Stephanie Belsky came dressed for the occasion in Star Wars
apparel.

A quick lightsaber duel in between text studies keeps them sharp!

Working in small groups, participants discuss a scene from the recent Obi-
Wan Kenobi show.

VOICE OF A
NEW GENERATION