Sun, 23 June
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Revelation - What Really Happened at Mount Sinai?
Join us and Paul Forgasz, a life-long educator and academic, as we contend with the idea of revelation at Mount Sinai. Tracing traditional and contemporary commentaries, we will encounter the vibrant meaning that our tradition has drawn from this encounter.
Time & Location
23 June 2024, 2:00 pm
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About the Event
According to rabbinic tradition, the Jewish people received both the Written and oral Torah from God at Mount Sinai. However, the traditional belief in "revelation '' is one of the greatest sources of division in the Jewish religious world today. We will examine traditional and contemporary approaches revelation and see that this is an aspect of Jewish thought which is not as straightforward as conventional thinking would have us believe.
Refreshments provided.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Forgasz’ career has spanned both the secondary and tertiary sectors of education. For more than a decade he was head of the secondary school campus of Mount Scopus College. He lectured in Jewish history and comparative religion at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and also taught about Jewish education, as well as school leadership, in the university’s Faculty of Education.
Paul has maintained an active involvement for many years in Jewish adult education and since 2010 has also led a number of sell-out Jewish study tours to various European destinations including Spain, Italy, Germany, Vienna, Poland and Lithuania. In 2024, he will conduct first-time tours to Morocco and Portugal.