Fill Your Own Cup: 30 Minutes of Inspiring Jewish Wisdom for Educators
Join Rabba Yaffa Epstein on Fridays at 12pm ET for 30 minutes of Jewish wisdom to fill your souls and to connect with your fellow educators. This weekly, drop-in virtual learning space will be a chance for educators to gather, learn some great text together, and care for their own souls.
Fill Your Own Cup will be on hiatus for July and August. Keep an eye out in September for a new link to register for next year's weekly learning!
This program is open to all educators in any educational setting. No prior experience with Jewish text is necessary to attend.
Questions? Contact Yaffa.
Source Sheets
September 13 - Don’t Get Stuck in the Thorns
September 20 - What is Teshuva Anyway?
September 27 - Finding Our Voices on Yom Kippur
November 1 - Jewish Food for Thought on the Elections
November 8 - You Are Wrong AND I Love You: How Do We Love Those We Think Are Mistaken?
November 15 - Wrestling with God
November 22 - Was Rebecca One of the Patriarchs?
December 6 - Jewish Perspectives on Miracles
December 13 - Miracles and Miracle Workers
December 20 - What Was the Miracle of Chanukah?
January 10 - We Want to Know the End of the Story
January 17 - Rabbinic Stories I – Kindness and Peace
January 31 - Rabbinic Stories II - Finding Truth on the Road
February 7 - Rabbinic Stories III - When Our Leaders Fail
February 14 - Rabbinic Stories IV - Romantic Love in the Talmud
February 21 - Championing Life
February 28 - Building the Tabernacle – Building Ourselves
March 21 - Pesach I - In Every Generation A Person is Obligated…
March 28 - Pesach II - Start with the Negative and End with the Positive
April 4 - Pesach III - Gratitude is the Point!
May 2 - Omer Series II - The Burning Bush
May 9 - Omer Series III - Moshe Prays for the Egyptian
May 23 - Omer Series IV - Moshe and His Siblings
May 30 - Omer Series V - The Second Tablets, Moshe’s Death
June 6 - Mishna Avot – Ethics of our Ancestors I
June 13 - Mishna Avot – Ethics of our Ancestors II
June 20 - Mishna Avot – Ethics of our Ancestors III
June 27 - Mishna Avot – Ethics of our Ancestors IV
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Rabba Yaffa Epstein is the Senior Scholar and Educator in Residence at the Jewish Education Project. Formerly, she served as the Director of the Wexner Heritage Program at the Wexner Foundation. Epstein has also served as the Director of Education, North America for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and was a member of the faculty. She has served on the faculties of Yeshivat Maharat and the Drisha Institute. Epstein has served as an Educator and Scholar in Residence for the Dorot Fellowship, Moishe House, Jewish Federation of North America, the Covenant Foundation, the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Repair the World, the Meorot Fellowship, and the KADIMA Fellowship. She has lectured at numerous Limmud events around the globe, has written curriculum for the Global Day of Jewish Learning and has created innovative educational programming for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. She received Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, earned an additional private Ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes, holds a Law Degree from Bar-Ilan University, and studied at the Talmud Department at Hebrew University.
Rabba Epstein is passionate about making Jewish learning accessible and exciting, and creating learning environments that are welcoming, diverse, and inclusive to all who wish to participate. She has taught educators, rabbis and lay leaders from across the spectrum of Jewish denominations. Rabba Epstein is the winner of the prestigious Covenant Award.
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