About Rabbi Steven G. Sager, Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Sager served as Beth El’s rabbi for 32 years. He is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and earned a Ph.D. in Rabbinic Literature at Duke University. Rabbi Sager has been a teacher, rabbinic advisor and mentor for students and graduates of the RRC, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Theological Seminary and the Rabbinical School of the Boston Hebrew College. Rabbi Sager is an adjunct faculty member of Duke Divinity School and has taught at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and in the Department of Social Medicine at the UNC Medical School. Rabbi Sager is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he is also a leader of the Rabbinic Programs Advisory Committee and of the Rabbinic Havurah program. Rabbi Sager served as President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and of the Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis (GCAR); co-director of the GCAR Interfaith Institute, Scholar in Residence on numerous occasions for the GCAR, as well as serving in this capacity in congregations throughout the United States. Rabbi Sager has published articles in The Reconstructionist, The Journal of Religious Education, and The Southern Medical Journal. Rabbi Sager now serves as the Director of Sicha, a project to stimulate conversations between classical Jewish culture and contemporary Jewish needs.
Resources
Rabbi Sager’s Poetry Sessions 2020: “Torah From Heaven, Heaven From Torah”
Click on the sessions below to view a recording:
“My Father Was God and Didn’t Know It” June 29, 2020 (Click here to view class materials.)
“All Were Present at Sinai Except For One” July 13, 2020 (Click here to view class materials.)
“The Threatening Mountain and Loving Shelter” July 27, 2020 (Click here to view class materials.)
“Moses our teacher, once saw the face of God and forgot…” August 10, 2020
“A Mystical Master and a Modern Poet Receive Torah for a New Age!” September 14, 2020
Rabbi Sager’s Fall 2020 Class: “Doors, Doorways, And Transitions”
Click on the sessions below to view a recording:
“Doors, Doorways, and Transitions” October 19, 2020 (Click here to view class materials.)
“Teacher In The Door” November 2, 2020 (Click here to view class materials.)
“Doors have Soul” November 16, 2020 (Click here to view class materials.)
Check the calendar for Rabbi Sager’s upcoming classes:
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