Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Geoffrey Claussen

Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Geoffrey Claussen
Shabbat, May 12-13 | Adath 

​Rabbi Geoffrey Claussen is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lori and Eric Sklut Scholar in Jewish Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar and Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought, and co-editor of Jewish Virtue Ethics.

His scholarship focuses on Jewish ethics and theology, and he has interests in questions of love and justice, war and violence, animal ethics, moral formation, and the legacy of the nineteenth-century Musar movement.

To purchase a copy of Claussen’s Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought with a 40% discount, click here and use promotion code 6AS22 at check out.

Schedule
Friday, May 12 
6 p.m. Service followed by Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Claussen
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A portion of the dinner cost is supported by The Sandra and Irwin Mandel Family Fund.

Saturday, May 13
9:30 a.m. SPA (Soulful Prayer at Adath) Shabbat Service
Rabbi Claussen will deliver the D’var Torah
Kiddush lunch (following service)
Learn after Lunch with Rabbi Claussen (following lunch)
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Sponsored by The Sandra and Irwin Mandel Family Fund.