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Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom to Speak at Congregation Shomrei Emunah

Englewood—Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, a mas­ter teacher and popular lec­turer worldwide, will be the scholar-in-residence at Con­gregation Shomrei Emunah in Englewood on Shabbos, June 28, 2014. Rabbi Etsha­lom will be speaking before Mussaf, during a special paid luncheon, and during seu­dat shlishit (approx. 8:15 p.m.). The luncheon is $36 per per­son for adults and $25 per child. A $180 sponsorship in­cludes two meals. Reserve on the Shomrei Emu­nah website, www.shomreiemunahnj.org or mailto:[email protected]. Babysitting will be available.

Rabbi Etshalom will speak on: “Coaxing Wa­ters from the Rock: Re-examining Mei Merivah” on Parashat Chukat; “Bilam’s Wild Ride” on Parashat Ballak; and “Introducing the ‘New School of Orthodox Tanach Study’— or is it?”

Rabbi Etshalom serves on the faculties of the Yeshi­va of Los Angeles, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and chairs the Bible Department at Ye­shiva University High Schools of Los Angeles. He is the au­thor of two volumes of Be­tween the Lines of the Bible, which incorporates a tradi­tional approach to the Torah text and insights from a variety of academic fields such as anthro­pology, archeology, philology, and literary analy­sis, to yield greater depth and insight.

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