Manger Winter Learning Seminar

Immersive Program
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Date
Week 1
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Week 2
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Location
Cost
$180 per week | $360 both weeks

Hadar’s Manger Winter Learning Seminar (MWLS) is an opportunity for students and young adults to study in Hadar’s Beit Midrash and take part in a dynamic, multi-level, and rigorous exploration of Jewish texts with passionate teachers and committed peers.

Immerse yourself in a stimulating week of Torah study, Jewish music, prayer, shared meals, and conversation while connecting to an incredible network of peers who are excited about learning and are working to build bolder, more ambitious, and more meaningful Jewish lives.

This seminar is designed for students, young adults, and recent graduates with a passion for Jewish texts and an openness to learning, sharing, and growing. Both weeks of the seminar will take place at Yeshivat Hadar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Arrival and Check-In

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

Orientation and Energizers

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Dinner

7:45 PM - 8:00 PM

Arvit

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Opening Shiur

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning Seder
Where Does Jewish Prayer Come from? On the Origins of Jewish Prayer

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Talmud Shiur

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack & Break

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Elective Sessions

Knots of Relationality: Our Tefilin, Ourselves
Avigayil Halpern

Picturing God: Can Heresy Improve Your Prayers?
Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg

Mitzvot and (Re)Starting a Relationship with God
Shira Botzum

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Elective Sessions

Hearing God's Voice Today
Jeremy Tabick

Coherence with the Divine
Hannah Kapnik Ashar

Title Forthcoming
Rabbi Elie Lehmann

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

Dinner

6:45 PM - 7:15 PM

Light Refreshments and Schmoozing

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM

Dr. Eddie Scharfman Memorial Lecture

Praying When the World is at Stake: A Theology of Climate Change
Rabbi Avi Killip

8:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Arvit

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Shiur Klali

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Outing

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning Seder
Can Prayer Be Optional? The Case of Ma'ariv

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Talmud Shiur

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack & Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Faculty Panel

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Elective Sessions

Michael Wyschogrod and the Scandal of Jewish Theology
Vincent Calabrese

Jewish Mindfulness Practices for Tefillah
Rabbi Goldie Guy

Could It Be That This World Has No Owner?" Understanding Who We Are, Understanding Who God Is
Miriam Lichtenberg

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM - 7:15 PM

Arvit

7:15 PM - 8:15 PM

Songs, Cries, and Sighs: Singing in Visions of a Changed World
Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning Seder
Chutzpah: Prayer as Protest

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Talmud Shiur

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack & Break

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Elective Sessions

Praying Anew: Unlocking Meaning in the Words of the Siddur
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

A God Who Knows Women
Rabbi Avi Killip

Title Forthcoming
Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz and Rabbi Mirim-Simma Walfish

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Break

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

Dinner and Closing Circle

6:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Arvit

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer ​​is President and CEO of Hadar. He received semikhah from his longtime teacher, R. Daniel Landes, and is currently completing a book on the weekday Amidah. He received a doctorate in liturgy from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was also ordained, and is a graduate of Harvard College.
Rabbi Avi Killip

Rabbi Avi Killip

Rabbi Avi Killip is Executive Vice President of Hadar. A graduate of Hebrew College Rabbinical School, R. Killip was a Wexner Graduate Fellow and a Schusterman Fellow. She is host of the Hadar podcasts Responsa Radio and Ta Shma.

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz serves the Hadar Institute as Director of Tefillah and Music. An educator, facilitator, and composer, she has collaborated on over two dozen albums of new Jewish music through Rising Song and beyond, including two albums of her own original music: The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) an Yetzira (2023).

Jeremy Tabick

Jeremy Tabick is the Content Manager and faculty at Hadar, where he teaches, curates, and edits Hadar's content—both online and in print—and Project Zug courses. Jeremy is also pursuing a PhD in Talmud at JTS. He graduated from the University of Manchester (in the UK) with a Masters in Physics, and is an alumnus of Yeshivat Hadar and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He lives in Riverdale with his wife and three children.

Rabbi Ethan Tucker

Rabbi Ethan Tucker

R. Ethan Tucker is President and Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar. He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and earned a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, he was a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar. He is the author, along with R. Micha’el Rosenberg, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017).

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz serves the Hadar Institute as Director of Tefillah and Music. An educator, facilitator, and composer, she has collaborated on over two dozen albums of new Jewish music through Rising Song and beyond, including two albums of her own original music: The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) an Yetzira (2023).

Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg

R. Micha’el Rosenberg is a member of the Hadar faculty. He holds rabbinic ordination both from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and from his teacher, R. Elisha Ancselovits, and has a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Signs of Virginity: Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity (2018), and, with Rabbi Ethan Tucker, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017).

If you’re a college student, recent graduate, or young adult looking to deepen your Jewish life through learning, prayer, music, and community, then yes!

See here for some frequently asked questions about what it’s like to study in Hadar’s Beit Midrash. In general, this program includes Talmud study in the morning, one-off elective classes in the afternoon, and evening programming such as a lecture, panel conversation, or live-podcast taping.

Sunday evening through Thursday evening, December 17-21, 2023 & January 7-11, 2024.

The two weeks of MWLS will cover different aspects of this topic - so sign up for either week or both!

Yeshivat Hadar (212 West 93rd St, New York, NY 10023).

Hadar’s immersive programs are opportunities to step out of your day-to-day routine and immerse yourself in islands of Jewish content and conversation. We strongly encourage all participants to attend the totality of our programs. If you have an extenuating circumstance that prevents you from participating, please write to us at [email protected].

Yeshivat Hadar holds a daily minyan during the MWLS (morning and afternoon) in which a quorum is 10 Jewish adults, gender is not a factor in who leads tefillah, and we generally follow the liturgy in the Koren-Sacks Siddur, with a few exceptions. While participants are not required to attend this minyan, you are warmly welcome to join, as this offers a taste of a fully integrated, holistic yeshiva experience.

Yeshivat Hadar runs according to halakhic norms, set under the guidance of its Rashei Yeshiva and faculty, and observance is a core commitment of the yeshiva. All aspects of our programming are meant to be compatible with and reinforce a life of mitzvot. However, personal observance is not a condition of participation in the MWLS. Some programs such as the Summer Beit Midrash are designed for a cohort of shared obligation in mitzvot, whereas the MWLS welcomes participants who are seeking that holistic experience of learning and observance, as well as those who are invested solely in the experience of intensive learning.

Please reach out to [email protected] with any additional questions.

This year’s theme is “לא על הלחם לבדו: Not by Bread Alone.” Our choices about food intersect with nearly every aspect of our lives. Over the course of these two weeks, we’ll consider how food choices reflect our values - religiously, socially, financially, and politically. Is there a Torah value of enjoying food or is food only meant for sustenance? Is it - or how is it - ethical to eat meat? Is kashrut meant to draw boundaries between Jews and non-Jews, and between Jews and other Jews? 

The two weeks of MWLS will cover different aspects of this topic - so sign up for either week or both!

Ready to take a deep dive into halakhic sources? Students with an extensive background in Talmud are invited to join Hadar’s Advanced Kollel for morning seder. We will cover the topic of פת של נכרים in the first week of MWLS and בישולי נכרים in the second week.

The cost for the seminar is $180 for 1 week or $360 for both weeks. Tuition includes access to the full range of programming, daily breakfast and lunch, as well as dinner when programming runs into the evening.

We also offer a $50 discount for referring friends who attend the program. Email [email protected] to discuss. 

The priority deadline for applying is December 3, 2023. After this date, we will offer rolling admissions until the program is filled. Space is limited, so don’t wait to apply!

Manger Winter Learning Seminar Application

Registrant Information








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The information below regarding your Jewish background and experiences will help us get to know you and will help us match you with an appropriate study-partner. We look forward to accommodating participants with a variety of skill levels and experiences with texts and Hebrew. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to [email protected] to discuss further. We know that no categorization is complete or will perfectly describe your experiences. Please do your best to answer as accurately as possible, and we are happy to discuss any of your answers further as needed.


Please elaborate.





Hadar will be photographing this event. By registering and submitting this form, you are giving permission to use these photos for promotional purposes.

Overview

Hadar’s Manger Winter Learning Seminar (MWLS) is an opportunity for students and young adults to study in Hadar’s Beit Midrash and take part in a dynamic, multi-level, and rigorous exploration of Jewish texts with passionate teachers and committed peers.

Immerse yourself in a stimulating week of Torah study, Jewish music, prayer, shared meals, and conversation while connecting to an incredible network of peers who are excited about learning and are working to build bolder, more ambitious, and more meaningful Jewish lives.

This seminar is designed for students, young adults, and recent graduates with a passion for Jewish texts and an openness to learning, sharing, and growing. Both weeks of the seminar will take place at Yeshivat Hadar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Schedule

This year’s schedule is still in formation. Check out the FAQs tab or last year’s schedule, below, for a sense of what the days at MWLS look like.

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Arrival and Check-In

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

Orientation and Energizers

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Dinner

7:45 PM - 8:00 PM

Arvit

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Opening Shiur

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning Seder
Where Does Jewish Prayer Come from? On the Origins of Jewish Prayer

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Talmud Shiur

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack & Break

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Elective Sessions

Knots of Relationality: Our Tefilin, Ourselves
Avigayil Halpern

Picturing God: Can Heresy Improve Your Prayers?
Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg

Mitzvot and (Re)Starting a Relationship with God
Shira Botzum

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Elective Sessions

Hearing God's Voice Today
Jeremy Tabick

Coherence with the Divine
Hannah Kapnik Ashar

Title Forthcoming
Rabbi Elie Lehmann

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

Dinner

6:45 PM - 7:15 PM

Light Refreshments and Schmoozing

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM

Dr. Eddie Scharfman Memorial Lecture

Praying When the World is at Stake: A Theology of Climate Change
Rabbi Avi Killip

8:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Arvit

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Shiur Klali

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Outing

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning Seder
Can Prayer Be Optional? The Case of Ma'ariv

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Talmud Shiur

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack & Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Faculty Panel

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Elective Sessions

Michael Wyschogrod and the Scandal of Jewish Theology
Vincent Calabrese

Jewish Mindfulness Practices for Tefillah
Rabbi Goldie Guy

Could It Be That This World Has No Owner?" Understanding Who We Are, Understanding Who God Is
Miriam Lichtenberg

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM - 7:15 PM

Arvit

7:15 PM - 8:15 PM

Songs, Cries, and Sighs: Singing in Visions of a Changed World
Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM

Shaharit

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning Seder
Chutzpah: Prayer as Protest

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Minhah

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Talmud Shiur

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack & Break

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Elective Sessions

Praying Anew: Unlocking Meaning in the Words of the Siddur
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

A God Who Knows Women
Rabbi Avi Killip

Title Forthcoming
Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz and Rabbi Mirim-Simma Walfish

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Break

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

Dinner and Closing Circle

6:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Arvit

Faculty

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer ​​is President and CEO of Hadar. He received semikhah from his longtime teacher, R. Daniel Landes, and is currently completing a book on the weekday Amidah. He received a doctorate in liturgy from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was also ordained, and is a graduate of Harvard College.
Rabbi Avi Killip

Rabbi Avi Killip

Rabbi Avi Killip is Executive Vice President of Hadar. A graduate of Hebrew College Rabbinical School, R. Killip was a Wexner Graduate Fellow and a Schusterman Fellow. She is host of the Hadar podcasts Responsa Radio and Ta Shma.

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz serves the Hadar Institute as Director of Tefillah and Music. An educator, facilitator, and composer, she has collaborated on over two dozen albums of new Jewish music through Rising Song and beyond, including two albums of her own original music: The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) an Yetzira (2023).

Jeremy Tabick

Jeremy Tabick is the Content Manager and faculty at Hadar, where he teaches, curates, and edits Hadar's content—both online and in print—and Project Zug courses. Jeremy is also pursuing a PhD in Talmud at JTS. He graduated from the University of Manchester (in the UK) with a Masters in Physics, and is an alumnus of Yeshivat Hadar and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He lives in Riverdale with his wife and three children.

Rabbi Ethan Tucker

Rabbi Ethan Tucker

R. Ethan Tucker is President and Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar. He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and earned a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, he was a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar. He is the author, along with R. Micha’el Rosenberg, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017).

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz serves the Hadar Institute as Director of Tefillah and Music. An educator, facilitator, and composer, she has collaborated on over two dozen albums of new Jewish music through Rising Song and beyond, including two albums of her own original music: The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) an Yetzira (2023).

Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg

R. Micha’el Rosenberg is a member of the Hadar faculty. He holds rabbinic ordination both from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and from his teacher, R. Elisha Ancselovits, and has a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Signs of Virginity: Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity (2018), and, with Rabbi Ethan Tucker, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017).

FAQs

If you’re a college student, recent graduate, or young adult looking to deepen your Jewish life through learning, prayer, music, and community, then yes!

See here for some frequently asked questions about what it’s like to study in Hadar’s Beit Midrash. In general, this program includes Talmud study in the morning, one-off elective classes in the afternoon, and evening programming such as a lecture, panel conversation, or live-podcast taping.

Sunday evening through Thursday evening, December 17-21, 2023 & January 7-11, 2024.

The two weeks of MWLS will cover different aspects of this topic - so sign up for either week or both!

Yeshivat Hadar (212 West 93rd St, New York, NY 10023).

Hadar’s immersive programs are opportunities to step out of your day-to-day routine and immerse yourself in islands of Jewish content and conversation. We strongly encourage all participants to attend the totality of our programs. If you have an extenuating circumstance that prevents you from participating, please write to us at [email protected].

Yeshivat Hadar holds a daily minyan during the MWLS (morning and afternoon) in which a quorum is 10 Jewish adults, gender is not a factor in who leads tefillah, and we generally follow the liturgy in the Koren-Sacks Siddur, with a few exceptions. While participants are not required to attend this minyan, you are warmly welcome to join, as this offers a taste of a fully integrated, holistic yeshiva experience.

Yeshivat Hadar runs according to halakhic norms, set under the guidance of its Rashei Yeshiva and faculty, and observance is a core commitment of the yeshiva. All aspects of our programming are meant to be compatible with and reinforce a life of mitzvot. However, personal observance is not a condition of participation in the MWLS. Some programs such as the Summer Beit Midrash are designed for a cohort of shared obligation in mitzvot, whereas the MWLS welcomes participants who are seeking that holistic experience of learning and observance, as well as those who are invested solely in the experience of intensive learning.

Please reach out to [email protected] with any additional questions.

Theme

This year’s theme is “לא על הלחם לבדו: Not by Bread Alone.” Our choices about food intersect with nearly every aspect of our lives. Over the course of these two weeks, we’ll consider how food choices reflect our values - religiously, socially, financially, and politically. Is there a Torah value of enjoying food or is food only meant for sustenance? Is it - or how is it - ethical to eat meat? Is kashrut meant to draw boundaries between Jews and non-Jews, and between Jews and other Jews? 

The two weeks of MWLS will cover different aspects of this topic - so sign up for either week or both!

Ready to take a deep dive into halakhic sources? Students with an extensive background in Talmud are invited to join Hadar’s Advanced Kollel for morning seder. We will cover the topic of פת של נכרים in the first week of MWLS and בישולי נכרים in the second week.

Cost

The cost for the seminar is $180 for 1 week or $360 for both weeks. Tuition includes access to the full range of programming, daily breakfast and lunch, as well as dinner when programming runs into the evening.

We also offer a $50 discount for referring friends who attend the program. Email [email protected] to discuss. 

Application Deadline

The priority deadline for applying is December 3, 2023. After this date, we will offer rolling admissions until the program is filled. Space is limited, so don’t wait to apply!

Manger Winter Learning Seminar Application

Registrant Information








Home Address
















The information below regarding your Jewish background and experiences will help us get to know you and will help us match you with an appropriate study-partner. We look forward to accommodating participants with a variety of skill levels and experiences with texts and Hebrew. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to [email protected] to discuss further. We know that no categorization is complete or will perfectly describe your experiences. Please do your best to answer as accurately as possible, and we are happy to discuss any of your answers further as needed.


Please elaborate.





Hadar will be photographing this event. By registering and submitting this form, you are giving permission to use these photos for promotional purposes.