Please join us for lectures on the weekly Torah Portion by Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, held every Thursday at 8.30pm (starting November 6, 2008) at Yurys's Piano (339 Watertown St., Newton, MA 02458).

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is the Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim of West Hartford CT,  Jewish Chaplain to the Hartford Fire Department,  a member of the Rabbinical Responder Team at Chabad Online (www.chabad.org), as well as Continuing Legal Education Lecturer and member of the adult education staff at Chabad of Midtown Manhattan.  Rabbi Yaffe has lectured and led seminars throughout North America and in Europe.

Rabbi Yaffe was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Portland, ME, and Los Angeles, CA.  He studied at Yeshivot in Miami, London, and New York and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in 1989. 

His activities focus on adult and young adult education, seminars, and counseling.  During his postgraduate fellowship at the Leeds Kollel in England (1990-1992), he created the Leeds Open Yeshiva, an institution devoted to bringing high quality in-depth Jewish learning to individuals of all ages and backgrounds.

A significant aspect of his work is making the sometimes complex and abstruse world of Jewish mysticism accessible and useful in daily life.

Another area of activity is the application of concepts found in classic Judaic scholarship to the contemporary legal, social, and scientific issues our societies grapple with. 

Admission is $10.  Please bring your Chumashim.

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