Temple B’nai Israel

For 2010-2011, Temple B’nai Israel is taking a different approach to Torah study.

For our first full year of study in 2009-2010, we met twice a month and followed the traditional Torah cycle and Torah portions, beginning with Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) and ending with Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-34:12). This meant that each session, we read and discussed two portions. The discussions were rewarding, enlightening, and fun, but we also discovered that two-hours hardly allowed enough time for our typically freewheeling conversation or for any real depth.

While going to weekly sessions might have helped, that did not offer a wholly satisfying solution, and did not fit the shedules of all our valuable participants.

Instead, we crafted our own approach, as we often do at Temple B’nai Israel.

We are still meeting twice a month, but this year is focused just on the Book of Genesis. At each session we consider two chapters, beginning with Genesis 1-2, and so on. Because Genesis contains 50 chapters and we will be meeting 24 times a year, it is a perfect schedule (we will have to adjust by adding an extra session sometime during the year, but we are nothing if not flexible).

Torah Study meets on the first Saturday of the month following Saturday Shabbat services, and on the third Saturday of the month at 10:00am. We haven’t posted the chapters for each session yet, but if you would like to be on the mailing list or want to find out what chapters we are discussing, please contact us at tbitupelo@gmail.com.