Class Description
In this five-week course, participants will learn how the Hebrew calendar is shaped and constructed, including the flow of the holidays and the cycles of daily and weekly practice. The course highlights how Jewish time is intentionally designed to guide reflection, spiritual growth, and self-understanding, emphasizing the essential relationship between human life and sacred time. Each week focuses on a different temporal cycle, highlighting daily and weekly rhythms, the progression of festivals, and how they create meaningful patterns within the Hebrew calendar, a lunisolar system that aligns lunar months with the solar year. Through text study and discussion, participants will learn how the rhythms of Jewish time cultivate meaning and connection to community and tradition. This class is open to people of all backgrounds and identities, offering a welcoming environment to learn about the structure and significance of Jewish time.
All virtual classes are recorded and made available to participants registered in the class. These recordings are password-protected and available for up to two weeks after the class ends.
Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic, and artist whose work focuses on multi-religious spirituality, politics, social issues, and community building. She is the founder of Malchut, a spiritual skill-building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God.
What to Expect
Format: Virtual
Class Capacity: 30
Class Style: Mix of lecture and discussion; participation encouraged
Materials List
Required
- Instructor-Distributed Materials
A Brief Syllabus
- The Architecture of Sacred Time—Daily Rhythms and Cycles
- Liberation and Revelation (Nisan–Sivan)
- From Grief to Love (Tammuz–Elul)
- Return and Renewal (Tishrei–Cheshvan)
- Hidden Wisdom & Illuminated Joys (Kislev–Adar)
Cost and Registration
5 Sessions, $200 ($180 for Newberry members, seniors, and students). Learn about becoming a member.
We offer our classes at three different price options: Regular ($200), Community Supported ($185), and Sponsor ($215). Following the models of other institutions, we want to ensure that our classes are accessible to a wider audience while continuing to support our instructors. You may choose the price that best fits your situation when registering through Learning Stream.
To register multiple people for this class, please go through the course calendar in Learning Stream, our registration platform. When you select the course and register, you’ll be prompted to add another registrant.
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