“Take Words With You”: The Prophet Hosea and the Power of Language

With Guest teacher, Rabbi Leah Berkowitz

On Shabbat Shuvah, the sabbath between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we read the prophet Hosea’s call to repent and the promise of God’s forgiveness. Hosea’s beautiful imagery and poetic voice challenge us to use our words, rather than our sacrificial offerings, to make amends and find favor in God’s eyes. We will explore this passage through the lens of the new Reform haftarah commentary, Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah.

Study is in the library or on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/810166610

Rabbi Leah Berkowitz is a Philly-based freelance teacher and writer. She currently teaches for the Union for Reform Judaism and Laasok.org, and is the co-author of middle-grade midrash collection Maybe It Happened This Way: Bible Stories Reimagined.