The Young Israel of Plainview Education Committee

proudly presents a weekend with Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter

Shabbat   September 19-20                       YIP Scholar-In-Residence                                            

Friday evening  9:15pm @ home of Michele & Larry Pollack (28 Oak Drive)

Friday tish  - come meet Rabbi Schacter, enjoy snacks and hear a dvar Torah

Shabbat morning drasha  ~ 10:30

• U’nesaneh Tokef Kedushat Hayom”

Shabbat afternoon  5:15pm   (one hour prior to mincha)

“Did Moshe Rabbeinu Know Everything:

Printing and the Unfolding of Human Knowledge”

Mincha 6:15pm (15 minutes earlier than originally scheduled)

Seudah shlishit -  extended  ~ 6:40pm

“Hachana & Yamim Noraim - Power of Preparation”

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University
Senior Scholar at Center for the Jewish Future

From 2000-2005, Rabbi Dr. Schacter served as Dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston. He was the first Rabbi of the Young Israel of Sharon, MA, from 1977-1981, creating a new, vibrant and committed community. From 1981-2000, he served as the Rabbi of The Jewish Center in New York City and served as Rabbi of the Maimonides Minyan in Brookline, MA from 2000-2005. Rabbi Dr. Schacter holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University and received rabbinic ordination from Mesivta Torah Vodaath. Rabbi Dr. Schacter was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard from 1978-1980, Director of Yeshiva University’s Torah u-Madda Project from 1986-1997, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University from 1993-1999.

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