Music can offer us steadiness and healing in this challenging time. Please join us for the first program in Hebrew College’s new Soul Sounds Series with musician and prayer artist Yahala Lachmish from Kehillat Zion in Jerusalem. Yahala holds a B.A in Composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and is co-head of the Sephardic track of the Ashira Tehilot Program for Musicians and Cantors at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem.

Our Soul Sounds series brings master Jewish musicians from the Boston area and around the world to campus for intimate musical conversations that are part concert, part participatory singing, and part prayer.

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A preview from the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College's Psalm 6 lesson on the new Calling Out from the Depths website, which speaks to suffering and prayer as it might relate to this moment.

For more than four decades, I have cared for very ill people with cancer, blood diseases, and AIDS. And for several years during those decades, I also experienced my own medical illness in the form of prolonged pain from failed spinal surgery. The words of Psalm 6 speak deeply to the psychological core of patients’ fears, and to how prayer can surmount fears and provide focus and direction when we are most bereft.

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This week, Hebrew College Rabbinical School welcomed a record 30 prospective students to our Mascott Beit Midrash for our fall Open House, Ta Sh'ma (Come & Hear).

“We see Hebrew College's Beit Midrash as a gathering place for forming deep connections fundamental to the spiritual work of Talmud Torah: with your ancestors, who speak through the text; with your chevruta, your partner in the learning project; with the broader learning community whose words and insights will buzz in the air around you; and with the Divine,” Rabbi Shani Rosenbaum, co-director of Hebrew College's Beit Midrash said. 

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You don’t have to return these library books! When planning for the move across Newton last January, Hebrew College took the opportunity to rehouse thousands of books with local and national organizations and universities, and to sell them to book dealers. The donated books went to dozens of institutions and individuals, including but not limited to Berklee School of Music, Cornell University, the Israeli American Council, Hebrew College partner Lehrhaus, Newton Free Public Library, Northwestern University, University of Washington, and the Yiddish Book Center.

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