1. AishDas Emunah and Mussar Workshop
The workshops are led by Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A six-hour (four 1.5 hour sessions, other configurations possible) workshop. The workshop
requires a minimum number of four participants. There are currently two groups in formation,
one for a community and one for high school girls. Please consider forming groups of at least four
participants and we will hold the workshop in any location that your group finds convenient.
It is no secret that high school students and adults across the spectrum of Orthodoxy have questions and
issues that often remain unanswered over the course of the school year. These are questions of Emunah
(basic and core beliefs and the evidence of their authenticity) and Mussar (purpose and meaning in life).
These will be addressed in the workshop. Moreover, often during the school year open questions and
questioning are discouraged. The workshop will allow and address any and all questions participants raise.
Topics that will be addressed will include:
● The Evidence for the existence of God.
● Evidence of the divine origin of Torah.
● The Age of the Universe and Evolution.
● The 13 Core Beliefs of the Rambam.
● The purpose, mission and destiny of the individual, of society and of the universe.
● The happiness of Emunah and Bitachon.
The cost is $54.00 per participant. For more information, please call 845.481.0613,
or email ygb@aishdas.org.
Rabbi Bechhofer has served as a Rav, Maggid Shiur, Rebbe and Rosh Kollel in the Chicago and New York areas. His
published seforim are: The Contemporary Eruv: Eruvin in Modern Metropolitan Areas, Bigdei Shesh on Bava Basra, and Bigdei
Shesh on Sefer Shoftim. Well over one thousand tapes of his lectures and shiurim (including the entire Yerushalmi) are
available online in audio and video formats (see his blog, rygb.blogspot.com, for links). He received Semicha from Rabbi
Yitzchok Koolitz, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and Rabbi Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, Av Beis Din of Jerusalem. He holds
an M.S. in Education (concentration in Counseling and Guidance) from Johns Hopkins University. The AishDas Society
(aishdas.org) empowers Jews to utilize their observance in a process for building thoughtful and passionate
relationships with their Creator, other people and themselves. To do so, we offer unique programs, educational events
and a supportive community and help other organizations develop programs and curricula.