Jewish Community Association
From the community to the community
We are an independent non-profit organization committed to serving the cultural, social, spiritual, religious, and educational needs of the Jewish community in the eastern suburbs and Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. We offer a diverse range of educational, social, and recreational programs for all ages.
A Coat of Many Colors: Conversations about Jewish Practice From Synagogue to Home, by Rabbi Tom Samuels, Unaffiliated
Sun, Nov 13
|Burquest Jewish Community Association
Rabbi Tom Samuels Okanagan Jewish Community Centre, Beth Shalom Synagogue www.rabbitomsamuels.com
Time & Location
Nov 13, 2022, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Burquest Jewish Community Association, 2860 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Coquitlam, BC V3C 2H9, Canada
About the event
From Synagogue to Home: I am an ordained rabbi through the Jewish Spiritual Learning Institute.
I grew-up in a Conserva-dox, lay-led Chavurah in Toronto, and went to a Religious-Zionist yeshiva for high school. Afterwards, I moved to Israel and served as a tank gunner in the IDF’s Hesder Yeshiva program.
I do not identify with ANY singular Jewish denomination, institution, theology, pedagogy, and the like.
At the core of my Jewish identity, what continues to inform who I am as a Jew and as a rabbi, is the Talmudic concept of Chidush, from the Hebrew root chadash, meaning “new.”
My session will explore the idea of relocating the North American model for “doing Jewish religion” from
the synagogue building to the home. In response to the destruction of the Second Temple, a new