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We will use the Omer as a jumping off point to consider why counting matters and what, in our own lives, should be elevated by enumeration. (Hint: People didn’t take care of grown-up kids and nonagenarian parents whizzing across coasts in the Torah, however the tradition has much to offer us as we wander in the deserts of our own lives. We will draw on her most recent book (co-authored) that just hit the stands: “Moments That Matter: Marking Transitions in Midlife and Beyond”.
Join Rabbi Laura Geller and our Alumni community to unpack the power of counting, traditional Jewish ethics, and Jewishly infused rituals that may help us as we navigate our own journeys. * R Geller calls the “sandwich generation” the “panini generation” because we are pressed between competing obligations of elder and childcare, while confronting new techno-medical-bio-AI possibilities in our own lives. Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi Emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, was the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. Named by PBS as an “Influencer in Aging”, since the publication of her book “Getting Good at Getting Older, coauthored with her husband Richard Siegel, z”l, which was also a National Jewish Book Award finalist.
Rabbi Geller was a cofounder of ChaiVillageLA and is the chair of the Synagogue Village Network, served on the Corporation of Brown University and now serves on the boards of the Jewish Women’s Archive, CoGenerate (CoGenerate.org; formerly Encore.org), and the Active Aging Resource Network (ActiveAgingNetwork.org; formerly B3/The Jewish Boomer Platform). More info here: www.rabbilaurageller.com.
