Yaffe Scholars Zoom Series: Tools for Transformation

Explore some of the most fundamental and timely Jewish values: connecting with prayer, loving your neighbor, pursuing righteousness, and more with the goal of transforming these oft quoted mitzvot into major sources of inspiration and daily practice in your Jewish life in this Zoom series.

 

Loving the Neighbor You Hate, Dasee Berkowitz, Jewish author and Educator at Ayeka

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We are commanded to “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) but what about when that neighbor drives you crazy? Just in time for Thanksgiving, we will explore texts and tools to help us move from the theoretical to the practical when it’s most challenging to love others.

Dasee Berkowitz is a Jewish educator, facilitator, and writer with a focus on bringing a Jewish spiritual lens to family life. Most recently, Dasee served as the director of Ayeka's Becoming a Soulful Parent program in which she worked with scores of clergy and Jewish educators throughout North America to bring her unique approach to parent education to inspire deeper connections between educators and learners. Her first book, Becoming a Soulful Parent: A path to the wisdom within was published by Kasva Press in March 2021. Dasee earned a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Barnard College and her MA in Jewish Education from Hebrew University. She is currently enrolled in the Certificate Program in Facilitation at Georgetown University. Dasee lives in Jerusalem with her husband and three children.