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Spiritual Sustenance in a Time of Crisis

How can we gain strength and nourishment during this time?

July 20, 2020

July 20, 2020

Melila Hellner-Eshed, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute, where she founded and co-directs the Rabbinic Students Seminar, a interdenominational program for rabbinic students spending a year in Israel. She has been a professor of Jewish mysticism and Zohar in the Department of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for over two decades. She received her degree from Hebrew University under the tutelage of Professor Yehuda Liebes.

All Together Now, Spirituality, Covid-19, Video

Spiritual Sustenance in a Time of Crisis

Living in the unknown challenges us deeply. How can we gain strength and nourishment during this time? In this session, Melila Hellner-Eshed explores Jewish tradition for what it means to find faith while sitting in the darkness.