Dveikut: Holding Fast to God in Troubling Times

Class Title – Dveikut: Holding Fast to God in Troubling Times

Class taught by Mike Feuer

Class description: Relationships are never easy, especially with the Divine. The model of dveikut – cleaving – can offer us insight into how to hold relationships together in these troubling times. This class will explore a range of texts on the topic, and aims to create a conversation in which students can cultivate their own voices and experience toward accessing this critical idea.

Mike Feuer

Rabbi Mike Feuer teaches Striving for the Divine, Rav Kook, and Jewish History at Pardes. He studied at Yeshivat HaMivtar, the Mir Yeshiva, and Sulam Yaakov, where he received rabbinic ordination and later served as Educational Director. Mike’s teaching combines rigorous textual analysis with a deep love of the poetry and spirituality found in Torah.

Since making aliyah in 2001, he has been the program director of a post-high school yeshiva and taught history, Jewish thought, and Bible in several Jerusalem yeshivot and midrashot. Today, as a consultant, spiritual counselor and creator of the Jewish Story podcast, Mike is driven by the power of story to shape our world.