BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:332@bethjacobsynagogue.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210113T193000 DTSTAMP:20210125T205500Z URL:https://www.bethjacobsynagogue.ca/events/avodah-zarah-weekly-talmud-wi th-rabbi-hillel-2021-01-13/ SUMMARY:Avodah Zarah: Weekly Talmud with Rabbi Hillel DESCRIPTION:Zoom link: \;https://us02web.zoom.us/j/92638201858\nZoom pa ssword: Same as usual for our Zoom events. If you don't already know it\, please email Shira at shira@bethjacobsynagogue.ca.\n \;\nAvodah Zarah (Hebrew for ‘foreign worship’\, i.e. ‘idolatry’) is a tractate of the Talmud mainly containing discussions on laws for Jews living among\, a nd peacefully interacting with Gentiles\, especially idolaters. While Juda ism is famously non-proselytising and very live-and-let-live\, it is also sometimes viscerally opposed to polytheism and worshipping physical object s.\nThis tractate deals with a fine balance: how do we remain authentic to our tradition while being respectful of others? How do we accept others r ights to worship differently\, without actively encouraging practices we b elieve to be inherently wrong? These discussions were pertinent 1500-2000 years ago when the Talmudic sages lived among Zoroastrians and Greco-Roman pagans\, and are equally relevant to us today\, albeit in a somewhat diff erent way. \;\n \;\nFor more information\, feel free to email Rabb i Hillel at r.hillel@bethjacobsynagogue.ca. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bethjacobsynagogue.ca/wp-content/upl oads/2020/10/library.jpg CATEGORIES:Featured Events for Homepage END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR