Today, I’m speaking with Esther Wein, Torah educator extraordinaire.
For more than 35 years, Esther has guided students of all backgrounds in Torah learning. Along the way, she became increasingly aware that even well-educated learners were often working with over-simplified explanations or incorrect ideas about the core ideas of Judaism and the unfolding story of Am Yisrael. Critical tools for navigating today’s complex world were therefore missing.
Because of this, she created an entirely new program called Torah Unlocked, and its upcoming flagship course, Reishis, where students will take a fresh look at the story the Torah is telling. Esther’s approach allows the many Torah ideas we have all learned to fall into place within their true context, and many longstanding questions begin to resolve on their own. The result is renewed pride, enthusiasm, clarity and devotion to the role one can play right now in Am Yisrael’s story.
While Reishis is not out yet, it is launching in the next couple of months, so if you visit estherwein.com, you can sign up for updates and get notified once it’s officially out.
In this episode, we speak a lot more about:
-The course Esther created
-Some of the core conflicts of the Torah and how they relate to what we’re going through both as a people and individually today.
-The religious world — both as a way to focus more on its positive attributes and recognize what we can all work on to create growth and improvement.
-What we can take from the Pesach story as she reframes the it in a way that will change how you view the entire Jewish people and our place in this world.
-The Omer period — what is really going on at this time that we are in and how practically, we can maximize its potential.
-The one thing that brings more bracha to Am Yisrael than anything else.
…and SO much more.
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