Pardes Learning Seminar
The Pardes Learning Seminar (PLS) invites you to explore classic Jewish texts and enduring ideas in a setting of depth, reflection, and connection. Guided by Pardes’s renowned faculty, you’ll engage in havruta study, dynamic conversation, and shared inspiration.
You’ll join a community of thoughtful professionals, retirees, communal leaders, and seekers—who share your love of ideas and your belief in Pardes’s mission to keep open, accessible Jewish learning thriving. You come to learn, reflect, and connect, but also to stand with Pardes as a partner in sustaining a Beit Midrash that welcomes every voice and nurtures vibrant Jewish life.
Experience how Pardes transforms text study into an encounter with purpose and possibility.
Winter Pardes Learning Seminar
January 17–19, 2027 | Online
Tuition:
- Sponsorship Level: $500
- Standard Registration: $360
- Young/Community Professional: $250
- Student: $150
Step into the living tradition of Torah through From Sinai to the Beit Midrash: How Torah Lives Across Time. Join Pardes faculty and fellow learners from around the world for three days of engaging havruta study, dynamic shiurim, and rich discussion as we explore how the Written and Oral Torah have shaped Jewish thought, practice, and community from Sinai to today. Accessible, inspiring, and entirely online, the Winter Seminar offers a deep learning experience from the comfort of home.
Summer Pardes Learning Seminar
July 4–8, 2027 | In Jerusalem
Tuition:
- Sponsorship Level: $2,500
- Standard: $1,800
Early bird 10% discount until January 31, 2027
Spend five immersive days in the heart of Jerusalem exploring The Mamas and the Pappas: Roots, Resilience, and Renewal. Join Pardes faculty as we revisit the patriarchs and matriarchs through the lenses of identity, leadership, family dynamics, mental health, environmental responsibility, and the balance between particularism and universalism. Through inspiring shiurim, havruta, workshops, and educational excursions, discover how these foundational stories continue to shape Jewish life and speak powerfully to the challenges of our own time.
Why the Pardes Learning Seminar?
For over two decades, the Pardes Learning Seminar has offered adults from around the world a window into the Beit Midrash—where classic Jewish texts meet modern questions in a spirit of openness and inquiry. Each seminar reflects Pardes’s signature approach: rigorous learning, havruta study, and deep conversation in a warm, thoughtful community.
Whether online or in Jerusalem, participants experience the intellectual vitality and spiritual depth that have made Pardes a home for meaningful Jewish learning for more than 50 years.
Meet the director of PLS: Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash
Nechama made aliyah from Philadelphia over 20 years ago after graduating from Stern College. She has studied at the Matan Institute’s Advanced Talmud and halakha programs, Bar-Ilan University and Nishmat’s Yoetzet Halacha program. Nechama is a certified bridal teacher and a sex educator through Yahel and the Eden Center.
Nechama teaches contemporary halakha and Talmud at Matan and Pardes, as well as Talmud and women and halakha in Torah V’Avodah (TVA). She is an active member of Beit Hillel and participates in interfaith dialogue through Roots, based in Gush Etzion, close to where she lives with her family.
