The CBY Adult Education Committee will host Nachliel Selevan on Monday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the CBY social hall. His talk, titled “Into Darkness” will center on how Chanukah is the Jewish celebration of light amidst darkness: the darkness of the Seleucid Greek decrees, the darkness of the 10th of Tevet, which began the process of the destruction of the First Temple, and the darkness that came from translating the Torah into Greek. Parshat Vayechi opens with allusion to the darkness of the exile and slavery in Egypt. “Into Darkness” is a perspective on the darkness of the winter in the Jewish year, in pursuit of light at the end of the tunnel

Nachliel Selavan, MA., aka “The Museum Guy,” is a museum storyteller. He guides tours regularly in Israel and New York’s museums, and in museums worldwide through Zoom. He has guided in over a dozen museums in the U.S., Europe and Israel, has engaged thousands of people of all walks of life through the museum, and speaks on podcasts and YouTube shows. He has guided several virtual tours for World Mizrachi and Chidon haTanach, and has done weekly podcasts and YouTube videos on parsha, Tanach and archeology. He is in New York during December until January 3, guiding special tours in the Met. You can find out more about his New York tour schedule https://www.museumtours.co.il/newyork-december-2021.You can find him online as Nachliel Selavan or “The Museum Guy,” and contact him by email at [email protected] or by phone at 054-452-0209. Website: www.museumtours.co.il Social media: @TheMuseumGuyIsraelTHE