with Aron Wander
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When
Wednesdays · 3 Weeks · May 6, 13, 20
6-7:30 pm ET / 3-4:30 pm PT
How do we continue the struggle for a better world in the face of what often feels like overwhelming odds? In Rebbe Nachman: Justice Beyond Despair, we’ll seek a narrow path between naive optimism and immobilizing pessimism. Drawing on Rebbe Nachman’s writings, alongside insights from psychoanalysis, we’ll explore the experience of political despair and disillusionment, the dangerous temptation to repress or avoid our grief, and the ways that faith — understood not as hope but as a commitment to our values — can sustain our organizing for the long fight ahead.
Though the class will be focused on textual sources, we’ll remain grounded in the overlapping political catastrophes of this moments: fascism, genocide, ecological collapse, economic and racial oppression. Rebbe Nachman won’t offer us easy solutions or straightforward critiques, but his teachings may help us construct the language and praxis necessary to confront the crises unfolding around us without either fleeing from or being undone by them.
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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 Aron Wander
—
When
Wednesdays · 3 Weeks · May 6, 13, 20
6-7:30 pm ET / 3-4:30 pm PT
How do we continue the struggle for a better world in the face of what often feels like overwhelming odds? In Rebbe Nachman: Justice Beyond Despair, we’ll seek a narrow path between naive optimism and immobilizing pessimism. Drawing on Rebbe Nachman’s writings, alongside insights from psychoanalysis, we’ll explore the experience of political despair and disillusionment, the dangerous temptation to repress or avoid our grief, and the ways that faith — understood not as hope but as a commitment to our values — can sustain our organizing for the long fight ahead.
Though the class will be focused on textual sources, we’ll remain grounded in the overlapping political catastrophes of this moments: fascism, genocide, ecological collapse, economic and racial oppression. Rebbe Nachman won’t offer us easy solutions or straightforward critiques, but his teachings may help us construct the language and praxis necessary to confront the crises unfolding around us without either fleeing from or being undone by them.
—
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.
Aron Wander (he/him) is a rabbi, organizer and writer living in the Boston area. He works as a community organizer for a multi-faith justice coalition, and his writing has appeared in Jewish Currents, The Lehrhaus, Gashmius, and elsewhere. More of his work can be found on his blog, Hitnodedut.
