May 3, 2021 | 21 Iyar 5781

NEWS & VIEWS

Thank You To Our Community!
More than 400 people attend Hebrew College's Spring Event

You make a community. We are filled with deep gratitude for the more than 400 people who joined and supported us for Hebrew College's virtual spring event, "What Makes a Community?" on May 2, 2021. If you missed it or would like to watch it again, we invite you to watch the 30-minute program here.

We also encourage you to read the event program book to be uplifted by inspired and loving messages and blessings to our five extraordinary honorees Susan Schechter, Myra Snyder, Nancy Kaplan Belsky, Beverly Bavly, Diane Troderman (above, l-r) and Esther Award recipient Jillian Segal, z"l.

We received more than 60 video responses to our question "What makes a community?" We hope you will enjoy watching some of these short videos too—and if you'd like to share your own video response, please send it to advancement@hebrewcollege.edu and we will add it to our video gallery.

Watch now

Voices From Our Community

Although we were virtual again this year, we are grateful that so many of you joined our event's Welcome Reception (with music by rabbinical student Jackson Mercer pictured above) and shared your reactions to the program in the Zoom chat. Here is a small sampling of our joint experience.

"Mazel Tov to all these amazing women—and a shout out to Hebrew College for creating, nourishing & maintaining this very special community!!!"

"Mazel Tov to all the honorees who are helping to ensure that Hebrew College goes from l’dor va dor."

"Thank you [Rabbi] Jordan [Schuster] for your endearing words. May Jill’s memory continue to be a memory in our community."

"Mazel Tov to the honorees and Hebrew College. What a beautiful celebration and way to be together in community."

"To all of the honorees tonight, your leadership continues to strengthen and catalyze our community."

Posts from this He brew College-hosted blog are also published weekly in Patheos.

The Perils of Abundance
Parashat Behar-Behukotai (Leviticus 25:1–27:34)
By Matthew Schultz, Hebrew College rabbinical student

The second verse of the Shema comes from the book of Deuteronomy. Recited twice daily by Jews around the world, it consists of two “if/then” propositions: If you follow God’s commandments, then you will be rewarded with ample rains and the bounty of the land. If you stray, then the land will falter, and you will be exiled from it.

This, at least, is the traditional understanding of the text. There is, however, another way of parsing it, one which was revealed to me and my fellow rabbinical students by our Biblical Hebrew professor earlier this year. Due to the nature of Biblical Hebrew grammar, it turns out, it can be unclear in “if/then” propositions where exactly the “if” ends and the “then” begins.

Hebrew College Virtual Events

"Faith in Isolation Expressed" Photography Exhibit
Mondays-Fridays by appointment through June 6
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Hebrew College Jewish Teen Foundation of Greater Boston (JTFGB)
Grant Ceremony
June 2 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. EST
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Commencement Ceremony(On Zoom)
June 6 | Noon-1 p.m. EST
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Rabbinical and Cantorial Ordination Ceremonies (Livestreamed)
June 6 | Cantorial 1:15 p.m. EST | Rabbinical 3 p.m. EST
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