Torah Portion Previews

Temple Adas Shalom, Havre de Grace, MD

The Torah portion previews below put together ideas from two different perspectives: modes of practice research and Reform rabbinical expertise.
 
Our bodies and environments seemed incomprehensibly complex until we discovered cells and atoms. To many, our history and personal experience still seem so. But using modes of practice as a unit analogous to cells and atoms opens possibilities for understanding that we can barely imagine without them.

From 2009-2013 Dr. David Kirk Dirlam, conducted developmental interviews of all the Rabbinical faculty of our Reform seminary, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Together they used modes of practice to describe the development of their expertise. The result provides a microscope for our tradition like no other. It laid the changing wisdoms of Reform Judaism in table. (see Concepts and Definitions for the Rabbinical Praxosystem or for more on that project see www.changingwisdoms.net/research).

The 200-word previews listed below are designed to encourage weekly participation at Temple Adas Shalom. David kirk Dirlam wrote the previews and revised them based on comments from Rabbi Michael N. Stevens. The dates are Friday nights beginning July 2022 and ending June 2023. The first paragraphs are summaries, the second applies ideas from the Rabbinical Rubrics and a principle relating to modes of practice.  Temple Adas Shalom emails the previews to its members.