Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

50 Years of Dialogue: Scholar-in-Residence Weekend with Rabbi Larry Hoffman

Join us March 21-22 for our “Scholar-in-Residence” weekend with special guest Rabbi Larry Hoffman. There is no congregation in North America that is more in tune with and influenced by the work of Rabbi Hoffman than Temple Micah. Very few have had as great an impact on modern Jewish worship, theology, and life than this great scholar. Many of our summer rabbi interns, all students of Rabbi Hoffman as Tisch fellows, will be joining us for this special weekend.

Schedule of Services and Activities

Friday evening: 6:30 p.m.

Rabbi Hoffman will join us for Shabbat and teach “Temple Micah as a Laboratory: How to Put the World Together.”

Saturday morning: 10:15 a.m.

Rabbi Hoffman will join us for Shabbat morning service, followed by a presentation entitled, “God, Prayer, and Other Things that Matter.” Kiddush to follow.

Saturday evening: 4:00 p.m.

  • 4:00 p.m. | “Questions Jews Ask, Or Should: A Conversation between Rabbi Zemel and Rabbi Hoffman,” featuring a musical celebration
  • 5:15 p.m. | Reception with former Tisch interns
  • 6:00 p.m. | Family-friendly musical celebration with Havdalah. All ages welcome!

PLUS: A Time to Reflect

Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel Sermons and Tributes

Pre-orders available soon

To mark Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel’s retirement after more than 40 years as the visionary leader of Temple Micah, we offer this second volume of his writings, A Time to Reflect. Complementing A Time to Speak (2019), this updated collection includes Rabbi Zemel’s ongoing explorations of his evolving perspectives on Israel, his favorite philosophers, and key sermons addressing significant national and global events. Edited by Micah member Martha Adler, A Time to Reflect includes an introduction from Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, tributes from fellow Temple Micah rabbis, and a powerful interview conducted by Micah member Jodi Enda.

Copies will be available for pre-order in the coming weeks and can be picked up at Temple Micah beginning March 21. 

Stay tuned for more information!

 


About Rabbi Hoffman

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

Lawrence A. Hoffman was ordained as a rabbi in 1969, received his doctorate in 1973, and is now professor emeritus at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he served for almost half a century.

Known internationally for his lectures to popular audiences and his spiritual approach to synagogue consultation, Rabbi Hoffman has written or edited 49 books to date, including “My People’s Prayer Book,” a 10-volume edition of the Siddur with modern commentaries which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2007.

Rabbi Hoffman served as visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame for many years and has lectured at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the University of Southern California, and the Yale Divinity School, among other institutions. He holds honorary degrees from Graetz College and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and is a recipient of the Abraham Geiger Medal.

In 1994, he co-founded “Synagogue 2000,” a trans-denominational project to envision the ideal synagogue “as moral and spiritual center” for the 21st century. From 2004 to 2015, the organization (renamed “Synagogue 3000”) launched Next Dor, a call for transformed synagogues to engage the next generation. His highly acclaimed “Open Letters to My Students” can be followed on his blog, “Life and a Little Liturgy.

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