Temple Emunah’s Adult Education/Glatzer Committee is excited to announce that this year’s Nahum and Anne Glatzer Scholar-in-Residence is Rabbi Josh Warshawsky.
Glatzer weekend will take place on January 30-February 1, 2026 (Shabbat Shirah weekend). Save the dates, watch for details and registration, and plan to spend this weekend filled with joy, music, and prayer at Temple Emunah! The Kolot Emunah performance during Shabbat Shaharit is not to be missed.
Thursday, January 22
Friday, January 30
Zemirot: The Hidden Hint of the Divine on Shabbat
The songs we sing around Shabbat bring us to a different level. They celebrate and uplift Shabbat in the best way – a true Shabbat Oneg (Joy). Sing and learn some classic and new Shabbat Zemirot with Rabbi Josh Warshawsky and explore the creative process of crafting new melodies for ancient texts.
Saturday, January 31
Prayer Leadership: An Ancient Art
The honor of serving as shaliah/shlihat tzibbur (literally: messenger of the community) has been bestowed on Jews in communities across the world for centuries. It is an essential position that requires preparation, musicality, and discernment. The Talmud teaches us that ancient prayer leaders would approach the Ark to lead the community in prayer with great humility. In order to take the congregation on a prayer journey, we must be able to understand the map, and be ready to be on that journey ourselves. Together we’ll take a journey through the Talmud and other traditional sources to see what we can learn about what it means to lead communities in prayer.
Sunday, February 1
Parenting the Parashah
Ancient wisdom for the modern parent! What can the stories in our weekly Torah portion teach us about how we orient ourselves on our parenting journeys?
Rabbi Josh Warshawsky is a pray-er, gatherer, music creator, and lifelong meaning seeker.
He is the rabbi at Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, OH, and a nationally touring Jewish musician, song leader, composer, and teacher of Torah. Josh seeks to build intentional praying communities, and travels to synagogues and Jewish communities across the country sharing his music and teachings on prayer and meaningful living. He has released four albums of Jewish music, filled with melodies written intentionally to express the deep meaning of the words of our tradition. His latest album, “Chaverai Nevarech Vol. IV,” comes out February 6th!
Josh describes his mission and music as follows:
My mission is to help people find a spiritual and meaningful home for themselves in order to live lives filled with purpose. I am guided and motivated by my belief that human beings are spiritual seekers and meaning makers. We can find that meaning through Jewish sacred text and ritual, and in the chain of tradition passed down from generation to generation. These texts and rituals have great power to guide us as we live our lives today, if only we can seek to better understand them and make them our own. Through prayer, through song and harmony, through spirituality, through ritual, through community, and through justice and fairness, the way is illuminated and becomes clear.
Josh has a rare capacity to connect instantly with people of all ages and backgrounds in a genuine and joyful way, and he combines this with a love of Judaism, deep wells of Torah, and wonderful and creative music making. -Jack Klebanow, Music Director, Beth El in New Rochelle, NY
Check out Josh’s website and listen to some of his music at https://joshwarshawsky.com/
Get excited!
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This year marks the 48th year since the inception of the Glatzer Fund and the initiation of Glatzer Memorial Weekend at Temple Emunah, an annual event that honors the memories of Anne and Nahum Glatzer, distinguished and active members of Temple Emunah. In their spirit, we bring eminent Jewish scholars to teach us and study with us.
We hope you will join us for a weekend of exploration, study, and learning together.
You can support this year’s programs with your donation either made electronically by clicking here or sending in the Friends of Glatzer form with your check to the Temple Emunah office.
We thank all of you who have already generously donated to become Friends of Glatzer. A list of all the donors is being gathered and will be shared in a future email.
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Friday, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
