Midrash, Stories, and Poetry

We are discontinuing the Monday night sessions for the summer. We will reconvene in August, starting August 16 and 30 with High Holiday themes. We will continue every other week at least through November. Enjoy your summer!

Conversations with Rabbi Sager: “Doors, Doorways, And Transitions” 

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• “Doors, Doorways, and Transitions” October 19, 2020
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• “Teacher In The Door” November 2, 2020
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• “Doors have Soul” November 16, 2020 
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• “God is a Doorway” November 30, 2020
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• “In Light Of The Door: The commandment of the Hanukkah light is to light it in the doorway closest to the public thoroughfare in order to publicize the miracle…” December 14, 2020
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• “Giving in the Doorway” December 28, 2020
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• “Opportunity Knocks: The Poor At The Door” January 11, 2021
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• “Miracles Behind the Door” February 8, 2021
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• “Elijah and the Messiah at the Entrance” February 22, 2021
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• “Elijah in the Doorway” March 8, 2021
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• “Elijah: Bridging Worlds”March 22, 2021
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• “Torah For All And Torah For Each” April 5, 2021
  Related texts: “Torah Revealed to Each” and “Torah Not Yet Given.”

• “The Door From Sinai To Sinai” April 19, 2021
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• “‘Threshold’ Experiences of Revelation” May 3, 2021
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Conversations with Rabbi Sager: “Torah From Heaven, Heaven From Torah”

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• “My Father Was God and Didn’t Know It” June 29, 2020 
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• “All Were Present at Sinai Except For One” July 13, 2020 
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• “The Threatening Mountain and Loving Shelter” July 27, 2020
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• “Moses Only Once Saw God’s Face and Forgot” August 10, 2020
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• “Moses Received Torah from Sinai and It Became Three Things” August 24, 2020
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• “A Mystical Master and a Modern Poet Receive Torah for a New Age!” September 14, 2020
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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. Read more.

Check the calendar for Rabbi Sager’s upcoming conversations: