COMING SOON: Journeying through Tishrei: Four Midrash Maps for the New Year
Learning With Your Own Havruta
Course Details
This Elul we will explore four different ways of understanding the holidays of Tishrei as a single spiritual arc. Our guides will be a series of teachings from Vayikra Rabbah, a classical collection of midrash. Midrash is the rabbinic tradition of close and imaginative Torah interpretation, uncovering deeper layers of meaning within biblical texts. In these teachings, the rabbis read the verses describing the holidays in Leviticus not simply as a calendar of observances, but as a map for inner transformation.
Registration for this course opens July 6, 2026!
Rabbi Aviva Richman is a Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar, and has been on the faculty since 2010. A graduate of Oberlin College, she studied in the Pardes Kollel and the Drisha Scholars' Circle and was ordained by Rabbi Danny Landes. She completed a doctorate in Talmud at NYU. Interests include Talmud, Halakhah, Midrash and gender, and also a healthy dose of nigunim.
