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Adult Learning

“Get yourself a teacher and find yourself a friend.“ ~ Pirkei Avot 1:6

The wisdom of Judaism has so much to offer in supporting our daily lives. Through adult learning at TBE, we hope you will deepen your connection to Judaism and transform the way you walk through the world.

Adult Retreat: Hineini (Here I Am)

Creating Holiness on Your Journey to Passover
In the rush of preparing for Passover, and the busyness of our weeks, it’s challenging to find the time and space to make the holiday meaningful, sacred, and transformative. Create that space at the TBE Shabbat retreat, where story, ritual, and text will come to life through our experience of music, nature, reflection, learning, prayer, and Shabbat in a shared community. Find yourself in the Passover story, and walk away with tangible tools to enhance your Passover practice and your life.

More Adult Learning Programs

eLeMeNTs

Find your inspiration to be a part of something bigger.

The Well

Programming on spiritual practice & mindfulness.

Other Series

Create your own path through Jewish learning.

Weekly Text Study

Anchor yourself through the wisdom of tradition.

Lifelong Learning

Learn from fellow congregants, with a flexible schedule.

eLeMeNTs: Be Part of Something Bigger!

On Monday evenings, connect to community and to ancient and modern Jewish wisdom through eLeMeNTs (Lishma: Monday Night Torah), TBE’s newest innovation in adult learning. Whether you’ve been studying for years or are stepping in for the first time, find your inspiration to be a part of something bigger.

This year, courses are organized in two curricular tracks: “Wrestling with Big Questions” and “Exploring Jewish Identity.” You can take courses all within one track to explore related concepts from multiple angles, or jump from one track to another based on what courses intrigue you.

Wrestling with Big Questions

Apply Jewish wisdom to how we deal with conflicting values.

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Exploring Jewish Identity

Connect with Jewish Peoplehood across ages and cultures through text, language, and art.

Upcoming classes:

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eLeMeNTs Schedule

7:00 pm: Gather, schmooze & nosh
7:15 pm: Singing, d’var torah
7:25 pm: Mourner’s Kaddish
7:30 pm: Learning options

Reach Out

Rabbi Vanessa Harper

Lynn Burke Harrell
781.997.4211

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Beit Midrash

For three thousand years, the Jewish people has been engaged in a continuous discussion, using time-perfected tools to dig deep into discovering answers to the world’s biggest questions. Break new ground with us as we build a brand-new kind of Beit Midrash (house of study) that equips you with our tradition’s timeless tools to explore ancient and modern texts and what they can teach us about the urgent issues of today, in a fun and friendly setting open and accessible to total beginners and experienced students alike. Join the conversation on the first Monday of each month in eLeMeNTs.

Dates: Nov 4, Dec 2, Jan 6, Feb 3, Mar 3, Apr 7, May 5, Jun 2

Register here

Build Your Own Beit Midrash

Experience relationship-building learning on your own schedule. Choose what you’d like to study from a selection of top-notch self-guided courses. We’ll help match you with a chevruta (study partner), kick off our learning together, and then support you along the way as you learn when and where you’d like: over Zoom, at a coffee shop, after kids’ bedtimes; whatever you and your chevruta decide.

This semester (March-June 2025), courses include The Balancing Act: Being a Jewish Parent, Theology and Ethics After the Holocaust, and A Food Tour of the Talmud.

Click here to learn more and register for semester 2 by March 10

Small Groups Initiative

Small groups are a chance to connect with other members over shared interests, identities, or life-stages in these lay-led groups. Groups meet according to your own schedules and build the experience that you want to have together.

Click here to sign up

The Well

Gather for learning and programming that centers around spiritual practice, mindfulness, and connection as a part of The Well at TBE. The Well integrates Jewish spiritual practices alongside modern mindfulness tools and techniques to provide a source of well-being through learning, practice, prayer, and support.

Embodied Practice

Engage your body in meaningful movement, art, and song.

Jewish Wisdom & Mindfulness

Integrate ancient Jewish wisdom with the best of modern mindfulness.

Questions about The Well?

Hannah Richman

Lynn Burke Harrell
781.997.4211

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Wellness at the Well

Nourish your mind, body, and soul.

Travel Opportunities

Travel with The Well.

Questions about The Well?

Hannah Richman

Lynn Burke Harrell
781.997.4211

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More Adult Learning Series

Create your own path through Jewish learning in classes that connect to Israel, engage with Jewish culture, wrestle with text, uncover new meaning in prayer, and so much more.

Pre-Shabbat Study Series

Sign off from the week a little earlier and begin to prepare for Shabbat with these pre-service study sessions.

View all upcoming pre-Shabbat study classes

Me’ah Select

The current Me’ah Select course, in partnership with Hebrew College, will study the Jewish ethics of war and the pursuit of peace from biblical times to the present in Jewish law and thought.

View all upcoming Me’ah Select classes

Weekly Text Study

Anchor yourself through the wisdom of tradition and the rhythm of the weekly cycle of reading and study.

Daf Yomi

Join us on Fridays for a practice of reading and discussing a page of Talmud a day, led by Rabbi Carol Mitchell. A complete cycle takes seven years!

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