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Saturday, January 18 • 7:30pm - 8:40pm
Zen Midrash: Finding Enlightenment through Absurdity

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Zen Buddhism and Rabbinic Judaism share an affinity for texts that can be inscrutable, sometimes maddening, and deeply meaningful. This session will explore different modes of approaching, analyzing, and encountering texts, and how themes and ideas present in foundational Jewish texts are echoed in Zen texts.
We will read Rabbinic texts and selected Zen Koans and see how they are illuminated when put in conversation with each other. In this encounter, we will gain insight into how Buddhism and Judaism approach learning, as a process and as a journey.
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Avishai Gebler

Avishai Gebler has been a professional Jewish educator for over a decade and is currently the senior Jewish educator at Hillel UW and Jconnect. As an educator, Avishai combines deep-rootedness in traditional texts and practice with creativity and a focus on empowering people to take... Read More →

Saturday January 18, 2020 7:30pm - 8:40pm PST
D103 / 42
  Torah/Text   Discussion

Attendees (29)