Weekly Torah Wanderings with Rabbi Michael Silbert

Weekly Torah Wanderings with Rabbi Michael Silbert

Tuesdays, beginning November 5, 10–11am; Yiddish Room

Join us for an exploration into the week’s Torah reading as we examine this
ancient text together, connecting with its enduring meaning and drawing
on its contemporary relevance. In addition to understanding Torah in its
historic context, we shall discover how it continues to speak to us in our
current day by bringing the insights of a range of interpreters–both classic
and modern–and finding ways to contribute our own voices.
Rabbi Michael Silbert was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa,
where it never occurred to him that he might one day become a rabbi!
More than ten years after beginning Graduate School at Brandeis
University, he found himself–much to his own surprise–beginning his
rabbinical studies at The Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, in
Newton, Massachusetts. He acknowledges that “At age 35, married,
with a newborn and a mortgage, I realized that becoming a rabbi
actually made sense to me, even if the timing didn’t!”
Rabbi Silbert has served as the rabbi/director at Hillel foundations on two
different campuses, and for the past (almost) seven years, as the rabbi
of Temple Beth David, in Rochester. He and his wife, Rachel, who is also
a Jewish educator, live in Pittsford with their two sons and two dogs.