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Post-Me'ah Graduate Institute

After a very successful first year, the post Me'ah Graduate Institute of Temple Israel will enter its second year beginning in the fall. Organized and conceived by Rabbi Starr, this series of classes provides a framework for continuing, serious Jewish education for those who have taken the Me'ah program. Staffed by some of the finest academic faculty in the area, the program consists of five four-week modules of study, each dealing with a different area of text study. The Institute meets on Tuesdays from 7:45-9:15 p.m.. Each module costs $125. One may take as many modules as he or she wishes. Enrollment by those who have not previously taken Me'ah courses is by special permission only.

The modules for the 2006-2007 year are as follows:

Module 1: "The Birth of a Nation: From Slavery to Commandedness: Exodus 1-20"
October 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7
Professor Lynne Heller

Module 2: "The Biblical Book of Ezra and the Beginnings of Post Biblical Judaism"
November 21, 28, Dec. 5, 12.
Dr. Michael Satlow

Module 3: "Talmudic Mysticism: the Second Chapter of the Talmudic Tractate Hagigah"
January 16, 23, 30, and February 6
Rabbi Meir Sendor:

Module 4: "Parshanut ha-Mikra: An Introduction to Medieval Biblical Commentary"
March 6, 13, 20, 27
Rabbi Barry Starr

Module 5: "The Haggadah as Text and Tradition"
April 24, May 1, 8, 15.
Dr. Reuven Cohn

For more information or to request special registration, please contact Rabbi Starr at the Temple office.