Fill Your Own Cup: 30 Minutes of Inspiring Jewish Wisdom for Educators 2025-2026
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.
This program is open to all educators in any educational setting. No prior experience with Jewish text is necessary to attend.
Questions? Contact Yaffa.
High Holidays Series
- September 5 - Can Repentance Change the Past?
- September 12 - The Healing Power of Repentance
- September 19 - Your Actions Matter
- September 26
Fall/Winter Series
- October 17 - Heaven and Earth
- October 24 - Windows and Words
- October 31 - Making Souls
- November 7 - Arguing with God, Finding Ourselves
- November 21 - Re-Digging the Wels
- December 5
- December 12
- December 19
- January 9
- January 16
- January 23
- January 30
- Educator Training
- Camp
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
- Webinar
- Jewish Text and Thought
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