The Siddur Unbound: Make Your Prayer-book Your Own
with Robin Banerji
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When
Wednesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 ET / 5 - 6:30 pm PT
September 3 · 10 · 17
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Some say that the Jewish liturgy—the base of our prayer tradition—was composed in prehistoric times by the “Men of the Great Assembly,” and has survived, unchanged, since then. History tells a different story: one of constant evolution, contested meaning, and experimentation, from ancient times to just yesterday.
Join us for a hands-on experience of making and unmaking the text of Jewish prayer: what do we say when we pray, and when we say it, what do we mean? Explore the hidden motivations behind the nusach, or wording, or the prayerbook, and develop a new understanding—informed by a contemporary liberatory political approach—of how to read it, understand it, and live it.
This class will use literary, theological, and philosophical methods to unpack and analyze prayers, then offer a three-step method to deal with them in our own time. Drawing from the antizionist siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, class participants will be empowered to pray on a more personal level, and craft the Jewish prayerbook into the personal guide they need to confront the struggles of the moment.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
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.
with Robin Banerji
—
When
Wednesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 ET / 5 - 6:30 pm PT
September 3 · 10 · 17
—
Some say that the Jewish liturgy—the base of our prayer tradition—was composed in prehistoric times by the “Men of the Great Assembly,” and has survived, unchanged, since then. History tells a different story: one of constant evolution, contested meaning, and experimentation, from ancient times to just yesterday.
Join us for a hands-on experience of making and unmaking the text of Jewish prayer: what do we say when we pray, and when we say it, what do we mean? Explore the hidden motivations behind the nusach, or wording, or the prayerbook, and develop a new understanding—informed by a contemporary liberatory political approach—of how to read it, understand it, and live it.
This class will use literary, theological, and philosophical methods to unpack and analyze prayers, then offer a three-step method to deal with them in our own time. Drawing from the antizionist siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, class participants will be empowered to pray on a more personal level, and craft the Jewish prayerbook into the personal guide they need to confront the struggles of the moment.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
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.
with Robin Banerji
—
When
Wednesdays - 3 Weeks
8 - 9:30 ET / 5 - 6:30 pm PT
September 3 · 10 · 17
—
Some say that the Jewish liturgy—the base of our prayer tradition—was composed in prehistoric times by the “Men of the Great Assembly,” and has survived, unchanged, since then. History tells a different story: one of constant evolution, contested meaning, and experimentation, from ancient times to just yesterday.
Join us for a hands-on experience of making and unmaking the text of Jewish prayer: what do we say when we pray, and when we say it, what do we mean? Explore the hidden motivations behind the nusach, or wording, or the prayerbook, and develop a new understanding—informed by a contemporary liberatory political approach—of how to read it, understand it, and live it.
This class will use literary, theological, and philosophical methods to unpack and analyze prayers, then offer a three-step method to deal with them in our own time. Drawing from the antizionist siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, class participants will be empowered to pray on a more personal level, and craft the Jewish prayerbook into the personal guide they need to confront the struggles of the moment.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
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.
Meet Robin
Robin Banerji (he/him) is a Torah scholar and editor of two Jewish prayerbooks, Siddur Tatir Tz’rurah and the forthcoming Siddur Shoshanat Yadi. Robin developed an all-new translation and transliteration for the prayers of Siddur Tatir Tz’rurah, and worked with scholars and activists across the US to compile a politically meaningful commentary on the prayers. Robin has taught classes in prayer, chant, and Talmud at Yeshiva Shel Maala, Ammud: the Jews of Color Torah Academy, and the New Synagogue Project in Washington, DC.
