Ari Sollish

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In our fourth and final class, we’ll shed light on the importance of Jewish customs and practices. We’ll travel through the ages and see for ourselves just how much weight they carry compared to actual Halacha (Jewish law), and the three criteria that a c...

Did you know that lighting candles on Friday night, setting the seder plate on Pesach, reading the megillah on Purim, and lighting the menorah on Hanukkah are all rabbinic enactments? That may seem surprising, but think about it, can you remember learning...

Lab-grown meat? Designer babies? Fully autonomous vehicles? Our world today certainly is different than the world our forefathers inhabited when they received the Torah in the desert so many years ago. So, how do we keep Torah relevant in an ever-changing...

Two Torahs? Who knew. Well, now you do. That’s right; the five books of Moses came complete with a second oral Torah that’s been passed down from generation to generation. These unwritten laws were not human-made. Rather, they came directly from G-d himse...

Let’s talk about the Torahs. You read that right; we received two Torahs from G-d at Sinai, the written law and the oral law. They were given together because one can not be understood or interpreted without the other. In this course, we will breakdown th...

“We have another son, who, unfortunately, is not well. He is autistic. He needs a blessing.”

In this class we take a practical and relevant approach in studying this classic text. We’ll examine the wisdom of Pirkei Avot through the lens of the classical commentators as well as the Kabbalists to gain an even more profound understanding of its many...