Upcoming Classes:
In collaboration with Ḥarifta, a new collective of Anti-Zionist Yeshivas, we will be doing some seasonally appropriate learning in Seattle on September 16th and 23rd, while our partner yeshivas learn the same text, then have the opportunity to join together with everyone online for a Siyum (celebration of learning)!
Our Seattle session will be September 16th and 23rd, from 6:30 – 9pm in Capitol Hill. Our first session will involve chevruta learning in translation with source sheets, then our second session will give us a chance to dive into a juicy piece of text in the SVARA method.
Then, we’ll join together with the rest of Ḥarifta at 11am PT on Thursday October 1st to discuss what we’ve learned and build community with other rad Jews learning the same text!
You can register for the Oct 1st siyum at this link.
About Talmidei Talmideihon
Talmidei Talmideihon is a SVARA-style beit midrash (house of study) meeting in Seattle. Talmidei Talmideihon offers in-person (and occasional online) classes where we dive into a few lines of Talmud, and translate them ourselves, word by word, from the original, using the Svara Method.
Talmidei Talmideihon, literally “students of their students” is an Aramaic phrase from the Kaddish d’Rabbanan, the prayer recited after studying from Rabbinic Texts. This name evokes two things: one, Aramaic, the language of Gemara, which makes up the bulk of the Talmud, and two, it highlights that in a T”T beit midrash, we all learn from and teach each other, and so we are all always the students of our teachers and vice versa.
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Meet Your Teacher
Tzali Loren is an anarchist banjo player, scifi reader, and a lover of everything DIY, living in so-called Seattle. She fell in love with Talmud after taking Queer Talmud for the Beginner’s Mind at SVARA, and ever since she hasn’t looked back! She is a graduate of Cohort 5 of SVARA’s two-year Teaching Kollel, a program that trains people as Talmud scholars and educators to teach in their own Jewish communities.
Talmud excites her for the same reason folk music, science fiction, and philosophy excites them – it’s an ever-evolving and yet ever-preserved tradition which contains wisdom, tall tales, and things we definitely want to leave behind! As inheritors of our traditions, we get to evolve alongside our tradition, and create the tradition that our children will inherit. And what a joy it is to do so!
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