Ursula K. LeGuin’s opening novel of her Earthsea series tells the coming-of-age of a haughty young man who searches for maturity, peace, and self-forgiveness after releasing a terrible danger into the world. Using passages from the novel paired and contrasted with classic rabbinic texts we will explore themes in the process of teshuva/repentance including the role of spoken articulation, the fracture/wholeness of one’s self after failure and sin, and the positive impact of friends and support networks to personal growth.
Three Thursdays, 8PM Eastern
September 4th – 18th
Rabbi Dan Margulies is on the Judaics faculty at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, MD. He received semikha from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and from his teacher Rabbi Simcha Krauss, and also studied in the kollel at YU-RIETS. He previously served as the Rabbi of The Riverdale Minyan, as Assistant Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, and on the faculty of the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. He studied chemical physics and mathematics at Columbia University.
