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The High Holidays give us a rich assortment of liturgy and stories about God, sometimes imminent and sometimes very far away. Sometimes disconcertingly and/or comfortingly familiar, human, a voice from inside us. And at other times, unfathomable. In this session we will explore how personal or abstract do we wish god to be? with insights from the tradition and Rabbi David Wolpe.

David Wolpe is the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple. He serves as the ADL’s inaugural rabbinic fellow and a scholar in residence at the Maimonides Fund. Rabbi Wolpe has taught at Harvard, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the American Jewish University, Hunter College, and UCLA. Rabbi Wolpe has published widely, including in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and The Atlantic. He has been featured on The Today Show, Face the Nation, ABC This Morning, and CBS This Morning as well as series on PBS, A&E, History Channel, and Discovery Channel, and has engaged in widely watched public debates with Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and many others about religion and its place in the world. Rabbi Wolpe is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller ”Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times” (Riverhead). His latest is titled “David, the Divided Heart” (Yale U Press) and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.

Access his source sheet HERE.