Rabbi Natan Margalit will be with us through our festival Shavuot Shabbat services on Friday, May 22nd at 7pm and Saturday, May 23rd at 10am, followed by a teaching lunch followed by a nature walk through our woods, on our Peace Trail.
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Rabbi Natan Margalit, Ph.D. serves as Interim Dean of Faculty of the ALEPH Ordination Program, where he is also Chair of the Rabbinic Texts Department, Director of the Earth-Based Judaism Program, Director of Studies, and a Member of the Academic VAAD.
Rabbi Natan (he/him) founded the non-profit Organic Torah offering courses in text-based environmentalism. Rabbi Natan is a Talmudic scholar bringing environmental, systems theory and nonduality to Torah study. He recently authored The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking. He was ordained in Jerusalem in 1990 and earned a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, 2001. He has taught at Bard College, RRC, and Hebrew College Rabbinical School.
“Our job in this life is, and has always been, to recognize our kinship with the world, to connect with those sparks as partners, and together with them serve God.”