with Chava Shapiro
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When
Wednesdays - 8 Weeks
8:30 - 10:00 pm ET/5:30 - 7:00 pm PT
Starts October 22, 2025
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What if exile isn’t a punishment—but a spiritual necessity? In this intensive course, we’ll read The Necessity of Exile by Shaul Magid alongside Torah, Talmud, and poetry to explore exile not as dislocation, but as a generative Jewish stance toward belonging, power, and liberation. Through sacred text and radical commentary, we’ll wrestle with what it means to be at home in a world that is not yet redeemed.
Each week, we’ll read one chapter of The Necessity of Exile outside of class. In our sessions, we’ll draw from Torah, rabbinic literature, and Jewish poetry to deepen our shared understanding and conversation. Students will be invited to take part in a living application of the course’s themes through an optional outside-of-class project. With structured prompts, check-ins, and creative support, you’ll be encouraged to explore the themes of exile and diaspora in your home, with friends, or in your broader community.
These projects can take many forms—ritual, art, conversation, documentation—and will be supported throughout the course as a space for innovation and imagination.
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239. If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
Click here to donate to JUs financial aid fund to support financial equity and access to education for all students.
with Chava Shapiro
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When
Wednesdays - 8 Weeks
8:30 - 10:00 pm ET/5:30 - 7:00 pm PT
Starts October 22, 2025
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What if exile isn’t a punishment—but a spiritual necessity? In this intensive course, we’ll read The Necessity of Exile by Shaul Magid alongside Torah, Talmud, and poetry to explore exile not as dislocation, but as a generative Jewish stance toward belonging, power, and liberation. Through sacred text and radical commentary, we’ll wrestle with what it means to be at home in a world that is not yet redeemed.
Each week, we’ll read one chapter of The Necessity of Exile outside of class. In our sessions, we’ll draw from Torah, rabbinic literature, and Jewish poetry to deepen our shared understanding and conversation. Students will be invited to take part in a living application of the course’s themes through an optional outside-of-class project. With structured prompts, check-ins, and creative support, you’ll be encouraged to explore the themes of exile and diaspora in your home, with friends, or in your broader community.
These projects can take many forms—ritual, art, conversation, documentation—and will be supported throughout the course as a space for innovation and imagination.
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239. If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
Click here to donate to JUs financial aid fund to support financial equity and access to education for all students.
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