Providence’s Congregation Beth Sholom, Core Connects Rhode Island, the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island, Providence’s Temple Beth-El and Providence’s Temple Emanu-El are collaborating to offer a 12-week in-person program: “Spiritual Accounting: Benjamin Franklin and Rabbi Mendel Lefin’s Course of Character Development.”
Taught by Providence’s Rabbi Eliahu Klein, a musar (practical Jewish ethics) instructor and the author of “Meetings with Remarkable Souls: Legends of the Baal Shem Tov,” this program is funded through a grant from the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and free for all participants.
In this program, a small group of up to 15 Jewish adults from across the religious and communal spectra in the Greater Rhode Island area will embark together on the course of reflection and character improvement outlined by Benjamin Franklin in his 18th-century autobiography and later presented in a Jewish context by Rabbi Menahem Mendel Lefin in his 1808 musar work, “Sefer Heshbon Ha-Nefesh” (“Book of Spiritual Accounting”).
With in-depth textual study and close-knit, pluralistic community-building, this program involves significant time commitment (12 in-person meetings, as well as reading and journaling at home) from participants, who it is hoped will return to their organizations, synagogues and homes with a fresh Jewish religious and communal perspective they can share with others.
Meetings will take place on Sundays from March 13 through June 26, with no meetings on April 17, May 8, May 29 or June 5 due to Jewish and secular holidays.
For more information, contact Shai Afsai at shai.afsai@ppsd.org or visit https://shaiafsai.com/benfranklinandmusar.
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